Good news! “Meaning Pills” have been invented. They have no side effect. They only cause you to experience the current activity is imbued with deep meaning. Do you take them ...
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Replying to @mrgunn
Sure, an imaginary psychedelic whose only affect was on meaning, not sense perception, cognition, mood, or affect.
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Replying to @alexisgallagher
The sensory perception & altered cognition stuff is forgettable with most psychedelics. I'm not sure people's answers, or revealed preference, would differ much.
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Replying to @mrgunn
It’s forgettable but disruptive. But if you could take meaning pills every morning like coffee, and make anything meaningful for 6 hours, with no other side effect or tolerance, that would be quite unlike existing psychedelics.
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Replying to @alexisgallagher
Unlike in unimportant ways. I wouldn't want to take anything - psychedelic or meaning pill - outside of special occasions. Inside special occasions, I don't think I would care about it being meaning only.
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Replying to @mrgunn @alexisgallagher
I guess this is where I break from the Western mindfulness tradition. I think there's negative aspects to finding meaning in arbitrary things. That way lies QAnon.
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Replying to @mrgunn @alexisgallagher
Meaning is best co-created, with your partner, children, family, community, friends, etc. Not generated in a solipsistic or narcissistic manner.
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