What is Emotive Energy?
Emotive Energy is a term to encapsulate the key factor of living organisms – climbing toward “negative entropy” (Erwin Shrödinger) and “ratcheting away from equillibrium” (Stuart Kauffman). Just as “centrifugal force” is a term to mask the complex underpinnings of a phenomena by focusing upon a key effect, “fleeing the center”, Emotive Energy masks the complex underpinnings of life by focusing upon a key effect of life – avoiding equillibrium. Bluntly, Emotive Energy is the energy of a living system or “autonomous agent” (Kauffman). Therefore, it is energy used for escaping equillibrium. Emotive Energy climbs toward order and complexity, just as it avoids chaos and simplicity.
