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Can you explain this as a metaphor for human life (or is that my job)?
Not my job. :) The point that Schrödinger makes in that essay is that it is not 'energy' that living things consume, but that we find streams of negative entropy into which we dump the entropy that we produce. It is this quality that he suggests is essential to the differentiation of living vs. non-living. The book contains his thoughts on consciousness as well. He dismantles the Western view of individual consciousness, and the existence of senses. Good stuff.