If we correct our thinking of these topics by seeing entropy as the distribution of potential over negative potential, "negative entropy" is potential (duh) and

If we correct our thinking of these topics by seeing entropy as the distribution of potential over negative potential, "negative entropy" is potential (duh) and life organizes around the capacity for potential (the potential of existential being, which includes heat or fuel or anything else for that matter) these matters work themselves out. Life does not "defy" entropy, we eat and shit more potential to arrange order such that our capacity for potential (which ever kind) increases or sustains.