Source: General System Theory (1968), 2. The Meaning of General Systems Theory, p. 39
“How would we express in terms of the statistical theory the marvelous faculty of a living organism, by which it delays the decay into thermodynamical equilibrium (death)?… the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness… really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.”
What Is Life? (1944)
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