Tom, is it not a simple fact, surely, that *meaning*, for a creature
with the wherewithal to worry about it, is fundamentally the recognition
of relationships amongst the creatures and things perceived in the
world, including oneself, and relating these to oneself?
Regards
Mark Peaty CDES
mpeaty.domain.name.hidden
http://www.arach.net.au/~mpeaty/
Tom Caylor wrote:
> On Mar 7, 1:52 am, "Stathis Papaioannou" <stath....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 3/7/07, Tom Caylor <daddycay....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Why wouldn't the *whole* of such a Plenitude be truly superfluous to
>>
>>
>>> any reality? According to Bruno's recursion theory argument, most of
>>> the stuff in the Plenitude is useless junk. *Someone* (somebody
>>> bigger that you or I ;) has to decide what is the good stuff. The
>>> good stuff IN *all* of the Plenitude, not just part of it. This is
>>> what I mean by being in charge of it.
>>>
>> The good stuff knows that it's good stuff, just as you will still know that
>> you're you if you're kidnapped in your sleep and taken to a distant place
>> full of things that aren't you. This is the defining feature of a conscious
>> entity. (This is repeating Russell's answer, but it's perhaps the single
>> most important idea of this list: everything + anthropic principle =
>> observed reality).
>>
>> Stathis Papaioannou
>>
>
> Like in my last Meaning of Life post, explaining observed reality is
> only half of the equation of the meaning of life. Modern science is
> only in the left side of the brain of humanity.
>
> Tom
>
>
> >
>
>
>
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