It's rare that I can justify an entire day to reading.  Being on the mend from my cold, and not being in a state to be efficient at much else, I was somewhat able to justify taking the time to read Kauffman's A World Beyond Physics just about end-to-end.  Although at many moments along the way I felt guilty about all the other things that I was "supposed" to be doing. Nonetheless, the timing of this read was brilliant.  I've always been fascinated by evolution and emergence and the broader application of these concepts.  I read Kauffman's 1996 work, At Home in the Universe, and this latest (2019) work attempts to add the missing piece in his theory of the emergence of life as we know it. I realise that reading helps me cope with a distinct loneliness I feel.  In continuously advancing toward the vision of reelyActive (my startup) I get further and further away from what might be considered the normal or established context.  In other word