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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In the Cells of the Eggplant
Meaningness
The Big Picture
Good and Real
Reinventing the Sacred
The Case Against Reality
The Romance of Reality
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
The Science of Enlightenment
Biomimicry
The Hidden Connections
The Meaning Crisis
Closer to Truth
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do We See Reality as it is?
Science with Sabine
Academy of Ideas
Vedanta Society of New York
Deep Turtles
The Intrinsic Perspective
Ribbonfarm
Astral Codex Ten
LessWrong
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Principia Cybernetica
On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems
A New Physics Theory of Life
First Support for a Physics Theory of Life
The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?
The entire quantum Universe exists inside a single atom
The Science of Meaning in Life
The Problem of Meaning: The Free Energy Principle and Artificial Agency
The Science of Muddling Through
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