As an aside, I find "meaning" frames of questions incredibly awkward to think of it. I think of it as the wrong handle on the core problem for me personally. I wronghandle a problem only when I cannot find the right handle that matches my own brain-grain.
Conversation
The closet to the right handle for these types of questions I've come is the elan vital concept cluster (elan vital itself, generativity, infinite game, flow). Though these terms get closer than "meaning", they're not perfect.
1
5
I don't have a word for it yet, but the "thing" I like to study/solve for is "temporal collimation" the sense of various strands of felt flow being in a sort of parallel, laminar condition, maintaining a focused intensity without either dissipating or converging to singularity
1
8
A behavior feeling "meaningful" is a symptom of this state of consciousness, but meaning-making is neither necessary, nor sufficient to induce or sustain it. It is highly correlated though.
1
7
I think this is practically a physics-level condition in a complex, autopoietic system. It is maintaining a low-entropy dynamic equilibrium, being alive or something, despite being in dissipative surroundings. Dissipative system like a tornado.
1
1
4
If you identify "the state of experiencing meaning" with "the state of being a stable dissipative system like a tornado" you can connect up gonzo experiential modes of meaning with contemplative ones.
1
3
Another way to come at this: define problem as "life, the universe, and everything."
"Meaning" is a serious, contemplation-first frame for addressing it.
"Gonzo" is a crazy, experiential-first frame for addressing it.
My "home" frame, humor, messes with boundary between them
2
1
12
Humor I think is under-appreciated and under-theorized in merely epistemic terms. I've been thinking about this essay for a few days which has some good food for thought beyond epistemic functions of humor (ht ).
2
3
16
👍🌊 apply_emoji *.*
- "Temporal Collation" - 🙌🤸
I find there is no "Merge" button here...
"Follow" is the strongest agreement I can offer 😁
* Waking from a nap to find this thread was like a gift from beyond * 😉
1
Collimation, not collation... reference to optics/lasers... :)
Right, sorry. I looked it up and then promptly forgot to type it correctly.
Although luckily it still sorta works *sheepish grin*
Collimation is a tremendous word.


