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		kridsdale1 on March 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A growing number of scientists are convinced the f... Scrambled eggs can become whole again by being consumed by insects, who are then consumed by chickens, who then lay eggs. The biological processes enabling that sequence can be said to have negative entropy.

dekhn on March 17, 2023 [–]

Negative entropy (also called negentropy) isn't really a well-defined concept. Instead, better to say that biological processes harvest free energy to maintain order in the face of increasing entropy.

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