What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell¶
Schrödinger, E. (1944). What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge University Press.
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- Dissipation
- Dissipation supports a distinctive form of counterfactual reasoning grounded in the unidirectionality of the second law: if this process were reversible, we would see X; we see not-X, therefore the process is dissipative, and the degraded form must be findable in the surroundings. The reasoning generalizes: anywhere an analyst observes ordered form not being recoverable, they can predict an entropy increase has been deposited somewhere — and conversely, anywhere they observe organization being maintained against the natural drift, they can predict a compensating dissipation occurring elsewhere, an inference Schrödinger (1944) made famous in his observation that living systems persist by feeding on negative entropy.
This sourceArgues that living systems maintain local order by "feeding on negative entropy" — i.e., that the price of sustained local low-entropy organization is dissipation deposited in the surroundings.
- Dissipation supports a distinctive form of counterfactual reasoning grounded in the unidirectionality of the second law: if this process were reversible, we would see X; we see not-X, therefore the process is dissipative, and the degraded form must be findable in the surroundings. The reasoning generalizes: anywhere an analyst observes ordered form not being recoverable, they can predict an entropy increase has been deposited somewhere — and conversely, anywhere they observe organization being maintained against the natural drift, they can predict a compensating dissipation occurring elsewhere, an inference Schrödinger (1944) made famous in his observation that living systems persist by feeding on negative entropy.
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