I believe that this is a mathematical attempt to express the reality that all of what we call life represents a dissipative structure.

This means random organization, sprouting like fractals off of the energy that flows past us towards heat death.

As the organization is essentially random, much of what exists does so because it can rather than because there is a reason or point for it to. Very little of whatever dissipative structure forms today will serve as a building block for anything in the future.

The development of the system we call life is like a blind man feeling his way through a maze. Most of his attempts, because they are random, will fail.

This is simultaneously a weak and yet powerful way of creating an organization. It allows anything that can to play, but forces all things to prove themselves before they are allowed to become templates for future growth.

Societies that have lost this awareness tend to develop an unhealthy fear of failure and try to prevent failure on the part of their citizens rather than recognizing that allowing failure is how you keep a society strong. Choosing to protect the failures is essentially choosing short term good feelings over long term health.