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Negentropy is reverse entropy. It means things becoming more ordered. By 'order' is meant organisation, structure and function: the opposite of randomness or chaos. Generally, everything in the universe tends towards entropy that is towards maximum disorder. Negentropy is a temporary condition in which certain things become more highly organised than the surrounding space. Star systems exhibit nentropy for a time, but eventually become dead and disordered. Life is considered to be negentropic because it takes things which have less order, like dead food and molecules, and turns them into things with more order, like cells in the body, tissues, and organs. Thus a living organism continually needs to increase or sustain its entropy. It can only stay alive by continually drawing from its environment negative entropy. Life feeds on negentropy.