The Neguentropy. How does a plant know that Spring is coming?

Authors

  • Clara Janés

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.22.22923

Keywords:

Schrödinger, Prigogine, entropy, thermodynamics, time, randomness, disorder, matter, energy.

Abstract

Life contains an irreversible phenomenon, entropy, a tendency towards disorder, result of the interchange of energy and matter with the environment, linked to the second law of Thermodynamics. One element that contributes such process is chance, «the understandable perhaps», for Schrödinger, involving the autonomy of time according to Prigogine. Schrödinger wonders how a living organism manages to «prevent thermodynamic equilibrium from degrading (death)», and answers: «with a certain level of negative entropy», that is, «By extracting ‘order’ from the environment».

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Clara Janés

Clara Janés holds a degree in Philosophy and a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Her wide poetic production includes works such as Eros (1981), Vivir (1983), Kampa (1986), Lapidario (1988), Fractales (2005), Orbes del sueño (2013) and ψ o el jardín de las delicias (2014), and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She is a prolific translator (texts by Vladimír Holan, Jaroslav Seifert, Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Katherine Mansfield and William Golding, among others). She has also published numerous works in prose, essays, e.g. Cirlot, el no mundo y la poesía imaginal (1996), La palabra y el secreto (1999), and María Zambrano. Desde la sombra llameante (2010) as well as novels such as Los caballos del sueño (1989) and El hombre de Adén (1991). Since 2015 she is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

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Published

2021-12-30

How to Cite

Janés, C. (2021). The Neguentropy. How does a plant know that Spring is coming?. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 22, 29–35. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.22.22923
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