Prominent Concepts Developed in This Book

  • The methodology of "Mindful Bounded Rationality"

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

  • "Meaning-Seeking Entities"

  • "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

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