Sublime

dissipative fitness, or how well an adaptive system can stay far from equilibrium by extracting free energy.

the increase in disorder is also associated with a loss of information

Entropy requires no maintenance. Order and intelligibility do. Sentient life—all life—is just organized information. Disorganized information is the buzz of static. Decay to the signal increases with distance, with time (which is just another kind of distance), and with interference.

This is usually referred to as “complexity” or “chaos theory” (the Teal equivalent to Orange’s Newtonian science).

let’s call this kind of heat-related entropy thermal entropy.

What is consumed from the environment is not matter or energy but order or quality—the structure, concentration, or purity of matter.

This sort of a situation where each individual trajectory in the long run does something different from the average over a large ensemble is called non-ergodicity. So, this is a non-ergodic system.