Theory of Life Directionality

Thesis: Life, as a physical process, is moving increasingly faster toward an ideal state, which is the perfect ordering of everything, from an anti-ideal state occurring as time approaches minus infinity. It achieves this by reducing entropy at the expense of increasing the entropy of its surroundings. My proposed name for this ideal state is ANRA. This ideal state will never be achieved; it is a direction toward which life will always strive, regardless of where it has emerged or will emerge in the universe. I have named the opposite direction antiANRA. Referring to the cybernetic definition of life, I consider life to be a set of negative feedback loops with an overarching positive feedback loop directed from antiANRA to ANRA.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-06-09
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20615793
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Origins and Evolution of Life
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Theory of Life Directionality

Grzegorz Szczerba
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Origins and Evolution of Life
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Theory of Life Directionality

Grzegorz Szczerba
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Abstract

Thesis: Life, as a physical process, is moving increasingly faster toward an ideal state, which is the perfect ordering of everything, from an anti-ideal state occurring as time approaches minus infinity. It achieves this by reducing entropy at the expense of increasing the entropy of its surroundings. My proposed name for this ideal state is ANRA. This ideal state will never be achieved; it is a direction toward which life will always strive, regardless of where it has emerged or will emerge in the universe. I have named the opposite direction antiANRA. Referring to the cybernetic definition of life, I consider life to be a set of negative feedback loops with an overarching positive feedback loop directed from antiANRA to ANRA.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Origins and Evolution of Life
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