To get the right answers you need to start with the right questions.
I find grounding in Arthur M. Young's
Reflexive Universe, and Fuller's
Synergetics. Young is summarized here:
arthuryoung.com/books/the-reflexive-universe/
Light gives up degrees of freedom, until you get rocks, then a miracle happens and degrees of freedom are regained. Each level has seven sublevels, we're at a sub-seven level.
Also a teaser for his next book on
Formal Expression for Control: Position and its Three Derivatives