Prominent Concepts Developed in This Book

• The methodology of Present-Bounded Rationality (PBR)

• Engineering as a far more powerful way (than religion or philosophy or even science) to understand reality

• Meaning-Seeking Entities (MSE)

• The Meaning-Seeking Entities (MSE) Framework

• The “6CED” Universal Tendencies

• A way to find Meaning in life using evidence and reason alone

• A way to find Purpose in life using evidence and reason alone

• A way to find Hope in life using evidence and reason alone

• The idea that Mindfulness and Active Inference may be related

• The idea of consciousness as a new "virtual" life form that emerges inside complex living entities

• The idea of applying Active Inference to consciousness

• How the concept of and desire for meaning may be shown to emerge from consciousness itself performing Active Inference, in order to keep itself alive