An Engineer's Search for Meaning
  • An Engineer’s Search for Meaning
  • Preface
  • The Whole Book in 5 Minutes
  • The Whole Book in One Diagram
  • Prominent New Concepts and Practices Developed in This Book
  • 1. Motivation: A (Midlife) Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
  • 2. Premise: Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood...
  • 3. Bottomline: If Not Evidence and Reason, Then What?
  • 4. Methodology: Engineering the Sh*t Out of My Midlife Crisis
  • 5. Ultimate Reality: Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns
  • 6. Physical Reality: Hitting Rock Bottom?
  • 7. Life: Entropy and the Pursuit of Complexity
  • 8. Consciousness: A Way for the Cosmos to Know Itself
  • 9. Meaning: Sorry Fellow Hitchhikers, It’s NOT 42!
  • 10. Purpose: The Universe “Wants” You to “SixCEED”!
  • 11. Hope: Past Performance is a Great Indicator of Future Results
  • 12. Call to Action: From Knowing the Path to Walking the Path
  • Summary: Use the MSE Framework to "SixCEED" in Life
  • Rude Q&A
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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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 “SixCEED” 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

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