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1 1 See also Ernst 1994; 2013b; Emerson 2013.

2 2 Negentropy is a scientific term meaning “negative entropy.” While, in thermodynamics, entropy refers to a tendency toward equilibrium in thermodynamic systems, which involves the dissipation or loss of useful energy, the term is more generally used to refer to a tendency to increased disorder and loss. Negentropy therefore has become associated with the idea that information processing produces order from chaos, with data appearing to become increasingly ordered and “lossless.”