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mk  ·  2526 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 24th Fortnightly Quotality

    What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. Or, to put it less paradoxically, the essential thing in metabolism is that the organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive.

Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life?

Just reread it after 20 years or so.