Empowerment Book II: Foundation:A Deep Dive into the Concepts Underlying Empowerment

Have you ever wondered: What happiness is and how to increase yours? What love is and how to get more of it? What motivates us, or what motivation even is? What influences our interactions and relationships and how we can improve their quality? Where misunderstanding comes from and how to alleviate it? If there's a way to eliminate tyranny, including tyranny of the majority, so that everyone in a society or institution can influence policies that affect them? What a system is and why we should care? How to reduce or eliminate bias? Whether there is an objective good and, if so, how we can determine it? What truth is and whether we can know it? What the difference is between information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, and why we should care? Where sentience comes from? Intelligence? Self-awareness? Why we feel and machines don't, or for that matter, what feeling even is? Where choice and free will come from, or what they really are? What self-discipline is, how to increase it, and why some people seem to have more of it than others? Why we exist and what the purpose of our lives might be? If God exists, and if so, why there's so much destruction and suffering in the world? Why we have so many seemingly unsolvable problems? This book offers answers to these questions and many others, delving deeply into them. It then lays the foundation for integrating them into a new paradigm that can show us how to conquer many of the problems we face today. But that's just the beginning...