Things that are built inside-out are very different than things built outside-in.

Inside-out things are alive. Outside-in things are engineered.

Humberto Maturana would describe these as:

Autopoietic: self building, inside-out.

Allopoietic: other-building, outside-in.

Autopoietic things tend to be self-maintaining They resist entropy on their own.

Allopoietic things cannot be self-maintaining; they need the effort of others to maintain them.

This means that autopoietic systems are the ones that build allopoietic systems.

The only local pockets of order in the universe, that successfully (and temporarily!) resist the ravages of entropy, are autopoietic systems.