Here is an example which I believe is directionally correct, it took me roughly 20 minutes to come up with it. The prompt is “how do living systems create meaning ”?:
My life feels like it has meaning (sensory-motor behavior and conceptual intentional aspects). Looking at it through an evolutionary perspective, it is highly likely that meaning assignment is the way through which living systems survived. Thus, there has to be some base biological level at which meaning is created through cell-cell communication/ bioelectricity/ biochemistry /biosensoring etc.
Life is just made of atoms. Atoms are just automata. This implies, there is no meaning at the atom level and thus it cannot pop at a higher levels through emergence or some shit. You are delusional to believe there is some meaning assignment in life.
Meaning is something that is defined through the language that we speak. It is well known that different cultures have different words and conceptual framing which implies that meaning is different in different cultures. Meaning thus only depends on language.
Meaning is just a social construct and we can define anything to have meaning. Thus it doesn’t matter what you find meaningful since it is just something you inherited through society and parenting.
I believe points 1-3 are fine, point 4 is kinda shaky.
Here is an example which I believe is directionally correct, it took me roughly 20 minutes to come up with it. The prompt is “how do living systems create meaning ”?:
My life feels like it has meaning (sensory-motor behavior and conceptual intentional aspects). Looking at it through an evolutionary perspective, it is highly likely that meaning assignment is the way through which living systems survived. Thus, there has to be some base biological level at which meaning is created through cell-cell communication/ bioelectricity/ biochemistry /biosensoring etc.
Life is just made of atoms. Atoms are just automata. This implies, there is no meaning at the atom level and thus it cannot pop at a higher levels through emergence or some shit. You are delusional to believe there is some meaning assignment in life.
Meaning is something that is defined through the language that we speak. It is well known that different cultures have different words and conceptual framing which implies that meaning is different in different cultures. Meaning thus only depends on language.
Meaning is just a social construct and we can define anything to have meaning. Thus it doesn’t matter what you find meaningful since it is just something you inherited through society and parenting.
I believe points 1-3 are fine, point 4 is kinda shaky.