Talk:Negentropy

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this page is confusing. it contradicts itself all over the place.

1. it says schrodinger used the term negative entropy, and brillouin used the term negentropy later. then later it says 'by using the term "Negentropy", [schroedinger] could....'

2. it says "negentropy is a misconception...", then it goes on to explain the technical meaning of negentropy. if it's a misconception, exactly what is it explaining, or where is the misconception? (did he mean it's merely a misnomer?)

4. it's not clear what schodinger is saying in the quote.. what's described above is NOT free energy, but the quote seems to be implying that schodinger thought life is free energy.. i'm sure he was smarter than that, but then, what the heck was he saying?

(i'd also like to know if the thermodynamic description of negentropy and the information-theoretic description of negentropy are isomorphic.)

Inhahe 02:50, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

I think that this article should be merged into syntropy.

anonymous 20:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)