<< I also am having a hard time thinking of any specific reasons why
anyone would want to object to describing extropy as the quality
of creative order characteristic of living systems >>
Mostly it is limiting, and IMO a bit confusing, and not very much different
than the definitions of neg-entropy (which is life - and amazing, but not a
place to stop).
IMHO, Extropy to me is a set of principles expressed as more than a sound
byte.