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ANNOTATION:
meaning making is the optimization of fitness
I would agree, meaning making must provide sume survival benefit or we would not spend so much time and energy upon the process of finding or creating meaning. I think that assumeing a connection between the serch for optimal fitness and meaning making is appropriate. Exactly what processes are being optimized is unclear, and so is the level at which this optimization occurrs, i.e. the individual, the species genepool or the total gene pool of all living organism. What I am trying to get at is that the approch to optimal fitness occurs at all levels, from the physical to the chemical, biological, psychological, social, cutural, species, all of life inself, and also with the environment. But meaning making is a particular human activity. Thus, I would relate meaning making to those organism which have developed self-consciousness. Self-consciousness introduces a paradox in that this I that sees itself also requires that we justify ourselves to it. This I or eye, eye of Horus, this evil eye, sees all, hears all and knows all that we do, even if done in secret and alone. This I(eye) is inescapable. it demans loyalty in the form of a blood oarth, if we fail in our task to find meaning, to justify our actions we will suffer and expereince pain so great that we will be willing to do anthing to escape its power. We will try to make ourselves unconscious of that which we are ashamed, or if this does not work we will pushich and hurt ourselves and if even this does not work we will sometimes even take our own life. this meaning making is this internal psychological process we use to justify ourselves to ourselves. But this I that demands this is not just internal but also external. its strenght is connected to the frlo of manna from heaven Spirit and manna, human significance and cosmic significance. meaning is when we discover our place in the world and when we find that our ift our internal drives and the demands and resouces of the external world match up well, when we are fit. Whether we call this connection spirit and manna, soul and god, genes and environment, nature and nurture, biology and sociology is unemportant. Iit is theability to find our place of fitness, a place where we no longer need to think before we act, but rather act from instinctual behaviors learned in the process of pursuing meaning. it is this contiual learning process that we call meaning making. It it the process of acuireing informatiin, that is personally relevant now and here as well as for all time
and iknowledge that can be woven into a complex tapestry of meaning that gives our existence significance, why we are the way we are, and what are palce is in the universe. Meaning in the form of a meta theaory must be both persoanlly significant as well as cosmologically significant. We call these meanings meta theories or meta narrratives, But they need not specifically require a narrative form, Music, math as well as myth all attempt to do this
music is particularly interesting as humans are very sensitive to rhythms and vibrations these rhytms alter mood and can make us feel as if we are filled with the spirit, with energy.
meaning making is the cognitive expalnation of the process of making connections, and connecting events, objects, thoughts, and feelings, ideas and reality inner and outer world intoa seemless whole. It is this sense of being connected that is what we decribe as fitting, we act without thinking we are no longer subject to the gaze of the I, we are at peace. We are one and all, we are nothing and everthing, we are like God, we are the alpha and the Omega. love is the sacredization of physical contact. Sex is touch concentrated in areas that have the highest concentration of nerve endings, The culmenation of this act is procreation where are genes are mixed with the genes of others, they connect and create anew. In this since we when connecting have the power of creativity thgt exists in the unverse,
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