_Meaningness_, the book, is weirdly bimodal. It clicks for some readers; others find it nonsensical.
I'd like to test a hypothesis from @andy_matuschak: it makes sense to meditators.
Do you meditate? Does it make sense? (Please don't answer unless you've attempted to read.)
i tried reading it once 3-4 years ago, i think when it was linked on SSC, and i did ‘t get anything out of it. then i tried again in late 2018, after meditating, circling, and some other vaguely “spiritual” experiences, and it was the best thing i read in 2018
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there was some kind of developmental stage or something i hadn’t attained the first time and had the second; i imagine meditation is one way to produce the relevant transition and that there are others
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