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Life’s “Meaning”, quantifying consciousness
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Meaning is an arbitrary concept, what one painting means to you means something entirely different to another and then once more something alien and nonsensical to a cat.

Just as an apple has no inherent meaning, we too have no “meaning”; only personal interpretations of our experiences hold any substance in the “us” and “it” of it all. We are not words, or definitions, we are multidimensional books of infinite complexity filled with countless expressions of our environment and self. We are more akin to the internet than any one sentence or ideology of defined meaning, to try and box us as one thing or another is to close your eyes to every other part that makes us us and to forgo anything else the ego does not consider itself or it’s “purpose”. It is to make the infinite finite just as all of infinite time has become our present, preventing us from easily viewing the infinitely larger picture. It is because of our sharp focus on the “this” and the “that” that we cease to appreciate the massively complex sensational experience of existence.

There is no “meaning” to anything, we are simply one portion of the the nature of infinity expressing its Mandelbrot set. The cosmic “it” like everything else is an experience/expression of our experiential existence that we so kindly get to sample a taste of. And so in that way we are an apple, galaxy, and black hole all in one. We are experience itself in its expression of us, we are the experience of being us and our accumulated sub experiences. There is no meaning other than that which we assign and even then it’s all but an experience, some infinitely cosmic qualia.

When I write like this, even after editing, it is often hard for me to convey my thoughts in a clear manner, so for this I am sorry. They usually comes out very jumbled but to try and clarify them any more would take away from my free flowing “thoughts” and what they are trying to convey. In reality I am trying to relay my experiences to you yet there is no simple way to do so in their entirety, so hopefully it makes some degree of sense to anyone reading it rather thank looking like terribly mad rambling :)

I’d love to hear any thoughts from you all as well! I hope everyone is enjoying their experience, take care!

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