Spiritual but not religious (SBNR) often seems to mean system-free monism: All Is One, but for no specific reason.| Meaningness
Stances—responses to meaning—are unstable thought-patterns. Often we adopt several contradictory ones in rapid succession.| Meaningness
Abstract reasoning is derived phenomenologically, developmentally, and computationally from embodied, situated, concrete activity.| Meta-rationality
Failure to find new foundations for meaning, to recognize diversity, to provide community, and to transcend opposition: all doomed counterculturalism.| Meaningness
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A reading list is a great idea—thanks! It would be a lot of work… but fun! For now, some books chosen without great care. The first three are the largest influences on Meaningness, but are quite difficult. There are some easier and more fun books later, plus one extremely fun movie at the end!| meaningness.com
The hippies and the Moral Majority both tried to rescue systematic eternalism—and failed. We live amongst their wreckage.| Meaningness
Meaning cannot be either objective or subjective. But meaning does exist: as interaction.| Meaningness
Understanding why nihilism became silly may improve your attitude to life considerably.| Buddhism for Vampires
The hippie counterculture was structurally and functionally similar to the Moral Majority Christian Right counterculture a decade later.| Meaningness
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It's bad. We can do better without it. In fact, we usually already do.| meaningness.substack.com
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Over the past century, systems of meaning gradually disintegrated, and a series of new modes of meaningness developed.| Meaningness
Wonder at the vastness, beauty, and intricacy of the phenomenal world: a texture of the complete stance.| Meaningness
Open-ended curiosity gives you the freedom to interact with the world without metaphysical presuppositions.| Meaningness
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Reconfiguring categories, properties, and relationships is a meta-rational skill—key in scientific revolutions.| Meta-rationality
Explore the ideas of Meaningness in greater depth by reading the books that inspired it| Meaningness
Modernity was built on certainty in science and mathematics. That was revealed as delusional during the early 20th century.| Meaningness
Intuitions of “cosmic meaning” root in hunger for personal significance, and in encounters with vastness.| Meaningness
Meanings come and go; they are not eternally stable—and that is fine.| Meaningness
The many justifications for nihilism rely on a handful of mistaken patterns of reasoning.| Meaningness
Recognizing meaninglessness requires unusual intelligence, courage, and toughness. Nihilist elitism renders you stupid, cowardly, and helpless, though.| Meaningness
Nihilism promises you don’t have to care, because nothing means anything. But you do care—and you can’t escape that.| Meaningness
The Guru Papers brilliantly illuminates fallacies of contemporary spirituality, and also the toxic power dynamics of authoritarian control.| Meaningness
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
