Prominent New Concepts and Practices Developed in This Book

• The methodology of Present-Bounded Rationality (PBR) as an improvement over pure rationality for the purpose of understanding and working with reality

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

• The connection between Present-Bounded Rationality and Engineering

• Meaning-Seeking Entities (MSE)

• The Meaning-Seeking Entities 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 / Free Energy Principle 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

• New practices based on the MSE Framework:

  • Mindful Moments

  • Purposeful Mornings

  • Hopeful Evenings

  • Meaningful Life