# References
## Books:
* "[Einstein's Enlightenment](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Einstein_s_Enlightenment/NKXsAQAACAAJ)" by John Campbell
* "[In the Cells of the Eggplant](https://metarationality.com/)" and "[Meaningness](https://meaningness.com/)" by David Chapman
* "[The Big Picture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Picture_\(Carroll_book\))" by Sean Carroll
* “[Good and Real](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262042338/good-and-real/)” by Gary Drescher
* “[Reinventing the Sacred](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuart-a-kauffman/reinventing-the-sacred/9780465018888/)” by Stuart Kauffman
* “[The Case Against Reality](https://a.co/d/cK8gtiJ)” by Donald Hoffman
* “[The Romance of Reality](https://www.theromanceofreality.com/)” by Bobby Azarian
* "[Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth](https://designsciencelab.com/resources/OperatingManual_BF.pdf)" by R. Buckminster Fuller
* "[The Science of Enlightenment](https://www.shinzen.org/resources/)" by Shinzen Young
* "[Biomimicry](https://biomimicry.net/product/janine-book/)" by Janine Benyus
* "[The Hidden Connections](https://a.co/d/jjZpnmS)" by Fritjof Capra
## Video Series / Playlists:
* “[The Meaning Crisis](https://www.youtube.com/@johnvervaeke) ” by John Vervaeke
* “[Closer to Truth](https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV) ” by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
* “[The Biggest Ideas in the Universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI09kat_GeI\&list=PLrxfgDEc2NxZJcWcrxH3jyjUUrJlnoyzX) ” by Sean Carroll
* "[Lex Fridman Podcast](https://www.youtube.com/@lexfridman)", by Lex Fridman
* “[Do We See Reality as it is?](https://youtu.be/oYp5XuGYqqY) ” by Donald Hoffman
* "[Science with Sabine](https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder)", by Sabine Hossenfelder
* "[Academy of Ideas](https://www.youtube.com/@academyofideas)", by Anonymous
* "[Vedanta Society of New York](https://www.youtube.com/@VedantaNY)", by Swami Sarvapriyananda
* “[Deep Turtles](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwBiGlALuhAzpZc0O0NyaAnCXJlaI3J_T) ” My YouTube playlist of relevant videos I have been collecting
## Blogs / Websites:
* "[The Intrinsic Perspective](https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/)" by Eric Hoel
* "[Ribbonfarm](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/)", by Venkatesh Rao
* "[Astral Codex Ten](https://www.astralcodexten.com/)", by Scott Alexander
* "[LessWrong](https://www.lesswrong.com/)", by Eliezer Yudkowsky
* "[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy](https://plato.stanford.edu/)"
* "[Principia Cybernetica](http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/EVOLVAL.html)" by F. Heylighen, C. Joslyn and V. Turchin (editors)
## Scientific Papers and Articles
* "[On the roles of function and selection in evolving systems](https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2310223120)" by Michael L. Wong et al
* "[A New Physics Theory of Life](https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/)" by Natalie Wolchover
* "[First Support for a Physics Theory of Life](https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life-20170726/)" by Natalie Wolchover
* "[The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?](https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2787)" by Karl Friston
* "[The entire quantum Universe exists inside a single atom](https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/entire-quantum-universe-inside-single-atom/)" by Ethan Siegel
* "[The Science of Meaning in Life](https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-psych-072420-122921)" by Laura A. King and Joshua A. Hicks
* "[The Problem of Meaning: The Free Energy Principle and Artificial Agency](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9260223/)" by Julian Kiverstein, Michael D. Kirchhoff and Tom Froese
* "[The Science of Muddling Through](https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/crp274/swenson/CRP566/Readings/lindblom1959.pdf)" by Charles Lindblom
## My Own Essays on Related Topics
* "[How the Free Energy Principle Explains Mindfulness" | by Vin Bhalerao | Nov, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/how-the-free-energy-principle-explains-mindfulness-fe133eaf8827)
* "[When You Gaze Into the Universe, the Universe Also Gazes Into You" | by Vin Bhalerao | Nov, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/when-you-gaze-into-the-universe-the-universe-also-gazes-into-you-5a0b254e8ab)
* "[Life, According to the Free Energy Principle" | by Vin Bhalerao | Oct, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/life-according-to-the-free-energy-principle-11034e759d63)
* "[The Free Energy Principle — The Ultimate Theory of Life?" | by Vin Bhalerao | Oct, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/the-free-energy-principle-the-ultimate-theory-of-life-cade09130a06)
* "[All About That Bayes’, No Trouble!" | by Vin Bhalerao | Oct, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/all-about-that-bayes-no-trouble-78fe084b7105)
* "[The Greatest White Pill of All" | by Vin Bhalerao | Apr, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/the-greatest-white-pill-of-all-7a46aeefdd75)
* "[Thinking from First Principles, About “First Principles Thinking”"! | by Vin Bhalerao | Jun, 2022 | Medium](https://medium.com/@vinbhalerao/thinking-from-first-principles-about-first-principles-thinking-df9cbd828f90)
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