order measured in bits — the distance from maximum entropy. how much structure a system has beyond random noise
thermodynamics: living systems locally decrease entropy through metabolism and growth, creating order from disorder
biology: dna replication, cell differentiation, and organism development are syntropic processes where order increases — self-organization, complexity, and life
cybernetics and systems theory: self-organizing systems develop increasing levels of complexity and coherence
see cyber/syntropy for the protocol-level measure of cybergraph coherence