Syntropy 1
‘Putting things together in a meaningful
way is one of the basic features of nature.’
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi*,
1977
The concept of syntropy (also known as negentropy or negative
entropy) has been introduced in the 1940s by the Italian mathematician
Luigi Fantappiè. It was late 1941 when he experienced himself suddenly
projected in a new panorama which radically changed the vision of science
and of the Universe which he had inherited from his teachers. The new
phenomena he discovered, he should later name
“‘syntropic’, totally different from the entropic ones, of the mechanical,
physical and chemical laws, which obey only the principle of classical
causation and the law of entropy. Syntropic phenomena, which are instead
represented by those strange solutions of the ‘anticipated potentials’,
should obey two opposite principles of finality (moved by a final cause
placed in the future, and not by a cause which is placed in the past):
differentiation and non-causable in a laboratory.”
Fantappiè concluded: “It appeared to me clear that these ‘syntropic’,
finalistic phenomena which lead to differentiation and could not be
reproduced in a laboratory, were real, and existed in nature, as I could
recognize them in the living systems. The properties of this new law,
opened consequences which were just incredible and which could deeply
change the biological, medical, psychological, and social sciences.”
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Luigi Fantappiè “discovered
that all physical and chemical phenomena, which are determined by causes
placed in the past, are governed by the law of entropy while all those
phenomena which are attracted towards causes which are placed in the
future (attractors), are governed by”
the law of syntropy which is symmetrical to entropy.
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*Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is also credited with
discovering vitamin C. ‘In the
late 1950s, Szent-Györgyi developed a research interest in cancer and
developed ideas on applying the theories of quantum mechanics to the
biochemistry of cancer. (…) Late in life, Szent-Györgyi began to
pursue free radicals as a potential cause of cancer. He came to see
cancer as being ultimately an electronic problem at the molecular level.
In 1974, reflecting his interests in quantum physics, he proposed the
term "syntropy" replace the term "negentropy".’ (Source)
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
described syntropy as a disposition toward elaboration in living things.
