I didn’t read the book, but, I’d advise people not to go into mysticism, it has brought us very little compared to the scientific method, which has powered our

I didn’t read the book, but, I’d advise people not to go into mysticism, it has brought us very little compared to the scientific method, which has powered our industrial and information revolutions. Dive into the Mindscape podcast, investigate complex systems. Go into information theory. Look at evolution from an information theory perspective. Look at how intelligence enables (collective) modeling of likely local future states of the universe, and how that helps us thrive. Don’t get caught in what at least I consider to be a trap: “to use your consciousness to explain your consciousness”. I think the jump is, for now, too large. Just my 2 ct. FWIW I consider myself a cocktail philosopher. I do have a PhD in Biophsyics, it means something to some. Although I myself consider it of limited value.