Negentropy vs. Extropy

Negentropynoun

(thermodynamics) The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.

Negentropynoun

(information theory) The difference between the entropy of a probability distribution and the maximum possible entropy of the same probability distribution.

Negentropy

In information theory and statistics, negentropy is used as a measure of distance to normality. The concept and phrase was introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in his 1944 popular-science book What is Life?

Extropynoun

negentropy.

Extropynoun

the pseudoscientific prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe