The following is the table of contents to the book The Energyists.
Introduction
Chapter One: Mutually Biased Organization (mbo)
1. Enabled to Do a Job
2. MBO’s Are Nature’s Way of Handling Messiness
3. Laws versus Logics
4. Peritythmic Organization
5. Referenced Randomness
6. Immediate, Expansive, and Focalized Features
7. Truth in a World of MBO’s
8. Orienteering
i. Natural Orienteering
ii. Human Orienteering
9. Morality as an Example of Orienteering
Chapter Two: Energy and the MBO’s
10. The Habits of Energy
11. Ability
12. Two Worldviews: Energy versus Forces
13. Assembled Causality in Nature
14. Energyism or Materialism?
Chapter Three: Corollaries
15. Not Just Significance But Measurable Significance
16. Inside & Outside
17. Non-Immediacy
18. The Suggestive Universe
19. Laws without Rule-Following
20. Cultural Evolution and a New Dialectic
Chapter Four: How MBO’s Are Made in Nature
21. Mutualism
22. Contributing Phenomena to MBO Formation
23. Expansive Evolution
24. Applications to Issues in Bioevolution
Chapter Five: Measurement
25. Reference Schemes
26. Graphing: Force is a Feature
i. Noncausality and Scientific Laws (a Review)
ii. The Graphs of Scientific Laws
iii. Graphing the Feature of Force
27. The Universe Measures
28. Consciousness
29. Truth, again
Chapter Six: Some Philosophical Issues
30. Teleology
31. Purpose as a Principle of Organization
32. Non-Immediacy, Hard and Soft
33. Noncausality
34. Comparison with Statistics
35. Markov
36. Determinism
Chapter Seven: Featurism, Information and Signalling
37. An Overview
38. Information
39. Signalling
40. Applications
41. Logotypes
42. Circumstance
43. Feature-Signalling and Featurism
Chapter Eight: Walking in a World of Signals
44. Looking Around
Chapter Nine: Some Comparisons
45. Ergonomic Logic
46. Biasing versus Interactions
Chapter Ten: Science
47. Reproducibility and Demonstration
48. The Anyone Criterion
49. Domain-finding
50. Entropy, Order, and Organization
51. Other Topics in Science
Chapter Eleven: Referentialism (Compare Perspectivism)
52. A Referencing Perspective
53. Machine Intelligence and Measuring
54. Referentialism
55. Ekpoietic Organization
56. Some Standard Questions
Conclusion: Being an Energyist
References, with Commentary