Biophysics

To reflect the minimum phenomena required, other biological definitions of life have
been proposed,[32] with many of these being based upon chemical systems.
Biophysicists have commented that living things function on negative entropy.[33]
[34] In other words, living processes can be viewed as a delay of the spontaneous
diffusion or dispersion of the internal energy of biological molecules towards more
potential microstates.[1][18] In more detail, according to physicists such as John
Bernal, Erwin Schrdinger, Eugene Wigner, and John Avery, life is a member of the
class of phenomena that are open or continuous systems able to decrease their
internal entropy at the expense of substances or free energy taken in from the
environment and subsequently rejected in a degraded form.[35][36][37]

Living systems theories