RE: The Meaninglessness of Meaning
July 26, 2015 at 7:45 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2015 at 7:46 pm by Angrboda.)
Meaning exists because we exist as projects moving forward through time. I am not just a body. I am a student... or an engineer... or a housewife... We are our projects. When we ask ourselves who we are, the answer is in terms of capabilities, such as patience or intelligence, or in terms of roles, employee or student, or in terms of goals, working on being a musician. Our consciousness is more than impressions. Our 'self' project haunts our awake mind like a ghost we cannot see but nonetheless feel. It has momentum and inertia. The student values getting up when the alarm rings, because that is part of the project / role of his being a student who wants to be a doctor. He goes to class for the same reason. This term paper that is a part of his core class has an urgency that a non-core class paper does not. This exam causes him anxiety, because it matters to the project that he is.
Meaning exists because we are more than impressions. Meaning is a consequence of being a project in motion, moving forward through time.
Meaning exists because we are more than impressions. Meaning is a consequence of being a project in motion, moving forward through time.