I’d give it some thought. There are lots of analogous examples in physics. Think of a siphon. Almost teleologically, liquid flows uphill because the energy cost of that is more than balanced by liquid also going down. 1/
The details of the process are less clear in this conjecture, but it’s perfectly orthodox to point out that local increase in order compensated by overall increase in entropy doesn’t violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. 2/