Order has running costs

Living things keep order by exchanging energy and matter.

Organism

FIGURE 8 / Living and nonliving specimens beside an open-system model. Order alone does not establish biological life. [13-15]

Organisms maintain internal structure while exchanging energy and matter with their surroundings.

Local order can increase while total entropy increases. Biological organization therefore fits thermodynamics; it does not reverse the second law. [13-14]

Crystals also form ordered structures. Growth or complexity alone is insufficient to establish metabolism, evolution or experience. [15]

Biological life and the Archive's Living Universe are different categories. Humans are helped when a metaphor is not mistaken for a biological test.

Breakfast is still required. The philosophical position has been noted.