We actively work to perceive aspects of the world as meaningful, in terms of our purposes, in context.| 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
If we could just manage to be ordinary, we would not have the responsibility of living up to our potential. Fortunately, ordinariness is impossible.| Meaningness
Specialness is a sense of having been picked out for destiny by the Cosmic Plan. That causes you and others much trouble.| Meaningness
Open-ended curiosity gives you the freedom to interact with the world without metaphysical presuppositions.| Meaningness
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It is attractive to think that we each have a unique, transcendent, ultimate purpose in life. Unfortunately, this belief is both false and harmful.| Meaningness
Explore the ideas of Meaningness in greater depth by reading the books that inspired it| Meaningness
To discover your shadow qualities you have hidden from yourself, you must go hunting on the path of attention.| Buddhism for Vampires
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
