> It's fair to characterize life as a process that locally decreases entropy I would characterise life as a process that copies its information into the future

> It's fair to characterize life as a process that locally decreases entropy I would characterise life as a process that copies its information into the future. Maybe the idea of copying and that of decreasing entropy are closely related. It's interesting that life needs digital codes to evolve, they seem a requirement for both maintaining low entropy and copying.