# 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 --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://lifevisor.gitbook.io/book/0-4-concepts.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.