Or it could be the last gasp of a current top down control model that goes to the dawn of civilization, which occasionally requires life to break through the crust. Cycles of tradition and renewal.

Look at galaxies; Energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. If the structure based model is carryed to its conclusion, we do fall into that black hole in the middle.

It is just that nature is more yin and yang, than God Almighty. Energy radiating to infinity, while structure coalesces toward equilibrium and we fluctuate somewhere in the middle.

We have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise. So the intellectual focus on the information does have us swirling around that totem in the middle, but people are too complex to be able to completely fit into the mold required, so some circuit breaker invariably occurs.

If we ever evolved culturally to the point of actually understanding the dynamic, we would fit into nature far more effectively.