Trying to understand the free energy principle is the crucial next step in trying to make sense of the theories about consciousness.

Link to research paper: https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/The%20free-energy%20principle%20A%20unified%20brain%20theory.pdf

Link to my video on Entropy and Maxwell's demon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScnelNSyKm4