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I wouldn't say that one must start anywhere or with anyone. My own intellectual commitments are rooted in the modern scientific skeptic's movement, and the perspective of evolutionary theory. My biggest influences of intellectual values came from Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, and Bertrand Russell.

As for recommended reading on this most interdisciplinary of topics, I have created a list of books fitting on a single bookshelf that I find most valuable to developing understanding and engagement with this field:

Henri Bergson: Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson: Key Writings
William James: Writings 1902-1910
Alfred North Whitehead: Science and the Modern World
Alfred North Whitehead: The Concept of Nature
Alfred North Whitehead: The Aims of Education
Alfred North Whitehead: Adventures of Ideas
Alfred North Whitehead: Process and Reality
Elizabeth M. Kraus: The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead's Process and Reality
Isabelle Stengers: Thinking with Whitehead: A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts
Gilles Deleuze: Difference & Repetition
Gilles Deleuze: Pure Immanence
Yuk Hui: Recursivity and Contingency
Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell: Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Terrence W. Deacon: Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter
Douglas Hofstadter: I Am A Strange Loop
George Lakoff and Rafael Nunez: Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
George Lakoff and Mark Johson: Metaphors We Live By
Stuart Kauffman: Humanity in a Creative Universe
Stuart Kauffman: Investigations
Leonard Mlodinow and Stephen Hawking: The Grand Design
Nassim Taleb: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Martin Seligman: Authentic Happiness
Teasdael et al: The Mindful Way Workbook
James Carse: Finite and Infinite Games
Robert Wright: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Douglas Rushkoff: Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
Nietzsche: The Portable Nietzsche
Carl Sagan: The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins: Unweaving The Rainbow
Richard Dawkins: The Extended Phenotype
Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker
Stephen Jay Gould: Bully for Brontosaurus

The goal is that someone who is interested in this strange, shocking conversation I am describing can look into these books and see if their subject matter inspires them enough for them to read them. My aim isn't to convince anyone of anything, but rather to inspire interest in a web of related conversations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9nFs2PeWw0

There's a reason why Land is absent from the present Omniquery Canon: he isn't worth such precious shelf space. Not even worth reading, in fact, unless you like tired-out Boomer jokes.