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Fluidity

This is a nonfiction audiobook narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, David Chapman. Full text at: https://meaningness.com

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Original music by Kevin MacLeod. https://incompetech.com/music/

Artwork on this webpage is by Barry Gohn. https://www.deviantart.com/bzgbg

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Feb 28, 2021

Fixation and denial are the two simplest ways of refusing to deal with the nebulosity of meaningness.

https://meaningness.com/fixation-and-denial

Wrong ideas about meaning come in mirror-image pairs, which fixate and deny opposite aspects of reality.

https://meaningness.com/confused-stances-come-in-pairs

Polarized pairs...


Feb 21, 2021

Meaningness is cloud-like: nebulous. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/nebulosity

Brains automatically find meaning and pattern; we need them to act. Unfortunately, brains also find meaning and pattern where there are none.

Original text is here:


Feb 15, 2021

People think they approach meaning in terms of religions or philosophies, but in practice, "stances" matter more.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/stances-trump-systems

Stances—responses to meaning—are unstable thought-patterns. Often we adopt several contradictory ones in rapid succession.

Original...


Feb 7, 2021

Mistaken attitudes toward meaning create unnecessary psychological/spiritual/existential suffering.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/misunderstanding-meaningness-makes-many-miserable

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

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