The process by which original newness comes into form. The essential need of all life. The direction of life is to create and discover newness. The skill of life is to be able to create. The tendency of all organized systems to dis-organize into randomness.
Living systems have negative entropy.
Closed systems do not exchange energy, therefore every time they act, they use up this finite resource and deteriorate. However, very few systems are closed. Entropy needs to be understood as a description of a very small class of systems. Life gives off a lot of entropic energy, but exchanges it for other energy, and in the process of using energy, life is capable of reorganizing to higher forms of complexity. Entropy has dominated our thought systems inappropriately for over 100 years and it's time to let go of it as The Law of all systems.