> The natural tendency of a [[Knowledge base]] to accumulate disorder over time - redundancy, staleness, conflicting records, and structural incoherence - in the absence of active maintenance. [^1] Analogous to [[entropy]] in thermodynamics: left unmanaged, a knowledge base drifts from an ordered, coherent state towards a disordered one. Active [[Knowledge management|knowledge management]] is the counterforce - the equivalent of negative entropy. [^1]: The "Entropy of Knowledge" (EoN): Complexity, Uncertainty, and the Nature of Scientific Discovery. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.01642.pdf. Accessed 2026-05-08.