In animate thermodynamics, Richard Langton Gregory (1923-2010) was a British neuropsychologist noted for 1981 book Mind in Science: a History of Explanations in Psychology and Physics, in which, after going into a bit of the history of entropy, thermodynamics, Maxwell’s demon, and other related topics, he reasons that:

“Time’s arrow given by entropy—the loss of organization, or loss of temperature differences—is statistical and it is subject to local small-scale reversals. Most strikingly: life is a systematic reversal of entropy, and intelligence creates structures and energy differences against the supposed ‘death’ through entropy of the physical universe.”