(April 30, 2015 at 11:21 am)robvalue Wrote: Your idea of meaning won't exist in terms of your brain when you're dead, but it's effects on your actions will affect others. This may alter their idea of meaning, and so on.
Unless you lived in total isolation of course.
I'm not following your point. You're trying to say my meaning lives on? That's clearly false. As my meaning only exists in my brain. It is not floating about in reality. In my brain it is real and measurable. There is nothing real and measurable about it floating around. What you may be talking about, is another brain's perception of my meaning, and that perception playing a part in the equation of forming it's own meaning. But the perception of my meaning is not my meaning.
If I have a red shirt, and you see my red shirt, and make a similar red shirt of your own, they aren't the same shirt. If we lit my shirt on fire, we wouldn't say my shirt still exists because you have a similar shirt.
