References

Books:

“Einstein’s Enlightenment” by John Campbell
“In the Cells of the Eggplant” and “Meaningness” by David Chapman
“The Big Picture” by Sean Carroll
“Good and Real” by Gary Drescher
“Reinventing the Sacred” by Stuart Kauffman
“The Case Against Reality” by Donald Hoffman
“The Romance of Reality” by Bobby Azarian
“Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth” by R. Buckminster Fuller
“The Science of Enlightenment” by Shinzen Young
“Biomimicry” by Janine Benyus
“The Hidden Connections” by Fritjof Capra

Videos / Playlists:

“The Meaning Crisis” by John Vervaeke
“Closer to Truth” by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
“The Biggest Ideas in the Universe” by Sean Carroll
“Lex Fridman Podcast” by Lex Fridman
“Do We See Reality as it is? ” by Donald Hoffman
“A New Way to Explain Explanation” by David Deutsch
“Science with Sabine” by Sabine Hossenfelder
“Academy of Ideas” by Anonymous
“Vedanta Society of New York” by Swami Sarvapriyananda
“Deep Turtles” My YouTube playlist of relevant videos I have been collecting

Blogs / Websites:

“The Intrinsic Perspective” by Eric Hoel
“Ribbonfarm” by Venkatesh Rao
“Astral Codex Ten” by Scott Alexander
“LessWrong” by Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy”
“Principia Cybernetica” by F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn and V. Turchin (editors)

Scientific Papers and Articles

“On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems” by Michael L. Wong et al
“A New Physics Theory of Life” by Natalie Wolchover
“First Support for a Physics Theory of Life” by Natalie Wolchover
“The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?” by Karl Friston
“The entire quantum Universe exists inside a single atom” by Ethan Siegel
“The Science of Meaning in Life” by Laura A. King and Joshua A. Hicks
“The Problem of Meaning: The Free Energy Principle and Artificial Agency” by Julian Kiverstein, Michael D. Kirchhoff and Tom Froese
“The Science of Muddling Through” by Charles Lindblom