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[musings] There is meaning in mystery; A unifying theory of meaning that explained it would destroy it by trivializing the mysterious

4:11 PM · Jul 30, 2016Twitter Web Client

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Destroying what it meant to enlighten, it wouldn't be a very good theory

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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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meaning is a just a corruption of cognition; the hub of the wheel is empty

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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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Jul 30, 2016

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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

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Why? Math is just domain of formal languages. Meaning from math indicates reinforcement signal from structure discovery

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methinks local meaning is closely related to salience - and big-M Meaning is salient to identity-formation

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meaning is whatever gets your pupils to dilate

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not just "eternally true", but also at different temperatures and lighting conditions! fucking amazeballs!

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