Rationalism responds to its failures, in the face of nebulosity, by making more complicated formal theories.| Meta-rationality
Finding the specifics of life unacceptable motivates the escapist fantasy of monism: the stance that All is One, denying diversity.| Meaningness
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People think they approach meaning in terms of religions or philosophies, but in practice, "stances" matter more.| Meaningness
Wonder at the vastness, beauty, and intricacy of the phenomenal world: a texture of the complete stance.| Meaningness
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What we want most from meaning is guarantees. Religions, political ideologies, and other eternalist systems promise certainty; but they cannot deliver.| Meaningness
A bridge from systematic rationality to fluid meta-rational understanding may be necessary to prevent civilizational collapse.| Meta-rationality
Defining the subject matter: rationality, rationalism, reasonableness, and meta-rationality.| Meta-rationality
Your post on the different stances mostly focused on ideation, regarding what goes on individually in relation to meaningness. I imagine that, for most of us, this cognitive process is habitual and out of awareness. That led me to think about the stances’ effect on behaviour, how that propels our flip-flopping from one to another - and how it might be a key to recognising our own underlying stances. This could be confusing: behaviours derived from a stance often appear to mean, and are r...| meaningness.com
A surreal, postmodern review of Ken Wilber’s book Boomeritis, which seems to be about my work at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.| Meta-rationality
