I use it to mean the stance that there is no meaning. (Not the only definition, but fairly standard)
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Replying to @Meaningness
That is the way I tend to use the term, too. I don't think there is meaning beyond a mirage built into nonsociopathic brains
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Replying to @Plinz
mmm… well I don’t agree but I haven’t written up that part of the story so I can’t make a detailed case
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Replying to @Meaningness @Plinz
I think you may be making the mistake of supposing that meanings have locations, and since they are not in things, must be in brains
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Replying to @Meaningness
no, minds are software; they have no locations in a spatial sense
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Replying to @Plinz
yes, that’s part of it! But meanings are not in minds either.They are “in” patterns of interaction that cross individuals’ boundaries
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Replying to @Meaningness
these patterns only exist as the projections of individual minds, but yes they relate the individual to (projected) systems
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Replying to @Plinz
Not sure what you mean by “projection”. They are objectively observable: people stop when the light turns red.
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Replying to @Meaningness
they stop when their neocortices create a dream of red lights infused by relevance generated by their motivational systems
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Replying to @Plinz
why a “dream” rather than an accurate sensory perception?
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damn now i worry that you left AI too early to make the basic epistemology stick
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