What is the Meaning of "Meaning"?
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So meaning is nothing but identification or recognition? No mention even of significance (to humans)? Your definition seems somewhat lacking to me....detail wrote: ↑May 7th, 2020, 12:46 pm One cannot overcome axioms and the basis of our thoughts, so the meaning of meaning is irrelevant. Meaning is the simple one on one identification of things and situation with abstract axioms and theorems with perceptions of the real world. Outside of this identification meaning has no meaning.
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The problem is that the idenfification is for everybody something different and the axioms as well, that how a metaphysical discussion on the basis of personal perception takes place. This generates then a more general setting and with it true open minded thought life.Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑May 8th, 2020, 8:31 amSo meaning is nothing but identification or recognition? No mention even of significance (to humans)? Your definition seems somewhat lacking to me....detail wrote: ↑May 7th, 2020, 12:46 pm One cannot overcome axioms and the basis of our thoughts, so the meaning of meaning is irrelevant. Meaning is the simple one on one identification of things and situation with abstract axioms and theorems with perceptions of the real world. Outside of this identification meaning has no meaning.
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Surely meaning is our interpretation of the significance of that "biological readout"? I.e. not the sensation or perception, but the conclusions we draw from it.popeye1945 wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2020, 6:48 am Meaning is a biological readout of the sensing of the physical world...
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Yes certainly, perception and sensations are the information to be processed, the conclusions of the process is the said to be the readout, input/sensing, process = HOT but only to ones biology, all meaning is biologically determined.
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In the sense that meaning is assigned by biologically-based creatures, then yes. Otherwise, I can't see the point of the conclusion you draw, sorry.
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Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑October 24th, 2020, 8:20 am In the sense that meaning is assigned by biologically-based creatures, then yes. Otherwise, I can't see the point of the conclusion you draw, sorry.
OK. So I'll be clearer: what is the point of the conclusion you draw (that "all meaning is biologically determined")? What are you getting at?
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There are a lot of words there, and not all of them make sense to me. But I can agree that "the physical world is meaningless" until or unless some conscious being creates and assigns that meaning. This is no disrespect to the physical world, but only an admission that beauty (or in this case, meaning) is in the eye of the beholder.popeye1945 wrote: ↑October 26th, 2020, 12:45 pm I do not believe that a great many realize they have the freedom to value what they please and do not necessarily have to accept what is in place. I would say that most people do not know that apparent reality is but a biological readout, that the world appears to be the way it is, because we are biological just so. What does the meaning of meaning as a topic indicate to you? Some people believe in objectivity, that meaning can be found out there, as independently meaningful. Alone an object just is, and cannot even be known as object in the absence of biological consciousness, in other words the physical world is meaningless. I would also venture the opinion that most people believe in human action, as apposed to being reactionary creatures, and the physical world as object is the source of cause, that biology is fated to react to. I think it would be a saner world if people in their interpersonal relationships thought in the terms of reacting, rather than acting as thought there was no motivation which moved them, but that could be another topic.
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Interesting topic!Marvin_Edwards wrote: ↑May 1st, 2020, 11:02 pmSo, when we use the word "meaningful" regarding some notion, we mean that the notion has some significant consequence of particular relevance to us and our lives.
In my opinion, actual meaning in anything can only unlock itself in the form of value (which I view as a term that means 'beholder of meaning') while actual meaning itself is a priori applicable to what is deemed to be 'reality'.
Meaning is what bonds 'the repeatable world' with what is not repeatable but that is logically vital for its repeatable nature. (repeatable equals empirical or 'the scope of meaningful relevance in science')
In my opinion it is pure meaning (non repeatable or 'non value-able' meaning) that lays at the root of conscious experience.
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The meaning of meanings being process is for the individual the physical world. AS Spinoza stated the body is the mind's singular idea and through the alterations of said body one comes to know what to the individual is apparent reality.detail wrote: ↑May 7th, 2020, 12:46 pm One cannot overcome axioms and the basis of our thoughts, so the meaning of meaning is irrelevant. Meaning is the simple one on one identification of things and situation with abstract axioms and theorems with perceptions of the real world. Outside of this identification meaning has no meaning.
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