{"id":2680,"date":"2019-09-05T15:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T15:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2022-05-03T05:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T05:05:15","slug":"looking-for-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/cognitive-insights\/looking-for-meaning","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many bright people live in a world devoid of meaning. By avoiding the devoid, they even get more and more in a strut. How to get out?<\/h3>\n

This is an important text to me\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

and to you, dear reader, for one plain reason: without meaning, there is no meaning\u2026 of anything.<\/p>\n

Meaning is related to depth.<\/p>\n

Meaning is related to the subconceptual.<\/p>\n

At the purely conceptual level<\/strong><\/p>\n

there is no meaning possible. If one says: the meaning of concept Y lies in concept X, what is then the meaning of concept X? One keeps looking for meaning as in a look-up table. That would be meaningful if one would, for instance, end up at concept A which would be truly meaningful.<\/p>\n

But then I would ask: why?<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u00a0\u201cBecause I say it\u2019s meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why do you?<\/p>\n

There is no way<\/strong><\/p>\n

of getting beyond concepts in purely conceptual thinking. And \u2018meaning\u2019-as-a-concept is just not about the conceptual, at least not as I\u2019m using this term and as you might have guessed.<\/p>\n

This meaning is being lost in many scientific domains because that\u2019s a world prone to concept-ualize everything.<\/p>\n

Conceptualizing is OK where it\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n

Conceptualizing may have bad consequences where it\u2019s not OK. [see: \u201cOther Consequences<\/a>\u201d]<\/p>\n

So, how to get out?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps by using scientist\u2019s schemes: conceptualizing the subconceptual.<\/p>\n

Well, I\u2019m trying to do so as much as I can. Still, I encounter scientists who are \u2018resistant\u2019 to anything<\/em> that could open their house of concepts. Outside of that house, they feel very uncomfortable to the point of \u2013 almost \u2013 losing rationality itself.<\/p>\n

So, how does one find deeper meaning?<\/strong><\/p>\n

By finding it, of course. Which is: by experiencing it. Eventually, one is the other.<\/p>\n

Experiencing is a here-and-now event. It\u2019s about poetry, about art, being in nature, being in relationships, etc.<\/p>\n

Hm. For instance, physicians see lots of patients but what many of them really see too much are diseases, prognoses, etc.<\/p>\n

No depth. No warmth. No meaning in the job. Burnout.<\/p>\n

Meditation<\/strong><\/p>\n

is according to me a nice way to reach deeper layers of meaning.<\/p>\n

A lot of different stuff is being called \u2018meditation\u2019. One of them \u2013 my take on it \u2013 is centered on deeper contact with oneself. That\u2019s also the goal of the 1000+ AURELIS health meditations.<\/p>\n

It is my attempt to bring some meaning.<\/p>\n

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