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

Video Series / 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
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

My Own Essays on Related Topics