The idea to define life as the creation of local negative entropy, in a sense pushing disorder out of a local space is not new, in fact that's the premise of Sc

The idea to define life as the creation of local negative entropy, in a sense pushing disorder out of a local space is not new, in fact that's the premise of Schrödingers 1944 book, What is Life?, which led him to speculate that human genetic information must be stored in something like a crystal, which he thought of as a prototypical structure for storing information, in a way anticipating the discovery of DNA.[1] (a helix instead of a crystal, but in principle not that far off) I'm not sure I agree though with the connection between life and consciousness in the article. I think it's very possible to have things that are alive in that entropic-displacing sense that need not be conscious or intelligent at all, say fairly trivial, self-replicating machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Life%3F