Thinking about meaning qua object only takes you further from it. “Meaning” is like “blue”: property, not a thing. You can’t capture blue, only have blue things. Same: you can’t capture meaning only have meaningful food (meals), relationships (friendships), house (home), ...
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similarly one can't have/capture a "Me", only "things perceived by Me". "Me" is less noun and more adjective like blue. like the light-in-fridge it is always there in *everything* perceived but also can't be found in isolation disjoint from a perceptionhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1370415190404071428?s=20 …
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a rainbow is created only when you notice it not because it renders into reality based on your attention but because colors such as red or blue are exist ONLY in consciousness.
when it is outside consciousness, the spectral phenomenon exists but the rainbow does not
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