Meaning and Consciousness
Meaning does not necessarily entail any phenomenological consciousness, but consciousness might owe its emergence in part to meaning drawing it out.
Joshua Clingo
Basal Meaning - Part 2 - Primordial Meaning
There is meaning in life, at least in human life. Is there meaning in other life? I propose that there is but that–as is the case with consciousness–simpler organisms have simpler, prototypical features of meaning.
Basal Meaning - Part 1 - Meaning deserves a proper origin story
Whenever we notice a useful function–memory, vision, audition, emotion, language, abstraction–we should be immediately reminded that this function followed a long and wending path to be so ubiquitous that we notice it at all. Much has been said about the origins of these and each has sparked a
Rightness and meaning
Rightness and meaning - fringe and focus
We’re looking for meaning, not happiness (etc.)
This is for the Effective Altruism red-teaming activity. I’ll be honest: still don’t quite know what that means. But I hope everyone can get some value out of this!
Meaning, fast and slow[1]
While it’s correct to say that we care about freedom, health, and being
Meaning Dynamics
Part 1: Developing meaning dynamics
Meaning in life is a complex dynamical process. Not only does mankind “search for meaning”—it also finds meaning in every moment. This meaning does not reveal itself as a series of properties of static objects in some objective universe, but through the direct experience