It seems that the author isn't being discriminated against. Perhaps the rejected article isn't up to his usual standards. Note that self-organizing systems are closely related to chaotic systems. Absent a chaotic component, self-organizing systems are often unstable.
Dear Doc, but that is precisely the point the article makes, at least one of them. Wave functions, probability spaces, offer infinite "possibilities" from a selection set which, at least to our 4D view looks very much like a totally random or chaotic distribution. The article specifically states, over and over again, that high thermodynamic entropy presents more favorable conditions for biological organization than low entropy. To the extent that (this would be the classical view) high entropy is associated with maximal dissipation of thermal energy such that the subject system has fewer and fewer energetic resources available for useful work, one would think that high entropy ineluctibly points to the thermal equilibrium or "heat death" of the organism. The point of the article is to show that high entropy is closely related to the optimization of Gibbs free energy (the formula for which is handily convertible into an entropic measure simply by dividing each of its terms by T) in living organisms, and that the Gibbs in its turn is closely involved with the vitality of living systems, in large part because of its coupled relation with Shannon entropy, which refers to informational possibilities (another type of probability distribution indicated here). The article asserts these relations and their subsequent processes are field-mediated phenomena.
If I were a scientific materialist, I would probably find such insights "disturbing." But I'm not, so I don't.
Probability distributions are reservoirs of chaos. This chaos is the basis of life though; for without it, nothing in the world could ever happen or change. Chaos provides absolutely every opportunity that can possibly be realized in this world. But once a "selection" has been made, a result has been obtained that shapes the development of the system irreversibly along the arrow of time.... At least within our 4D universe.
FWIW. Thanks for writing, Doc!