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There is meaning in mystery; A unifying theory of meaning that explained it would destroy it by trivializing the mysterious
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Maybe for this reason, there cannot be a single theory of meaning, only one for each of its aspects, uniquely adapted to its nature
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but maybe it's a useful corruption, not logically correct but increasing wellbeing/fitness
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yeah, this is kind of what I was trying to convey here
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Maybe for this reason, there cannot be a single theory of meaning, only one for each of its aspects, uniquely adapted to its nature
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oh you can explain - it just turns out not to be very satisfactory because it strips the mystery
Why? Math is just domain of formal languages. Meaning from math indicates reinforcement signal from structure discovery
methinks local meaning is closely related to salience - and big-M Meaning is salient to identity-formation
not just "eternally true", but also at different temperatures and lighting conditions! fucking amazeballs!
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