Fluidity

Open-ended curiosity gives you the freedom to interact with the world without metaphysical presuppositions.

https://meaningness.com/curiosity

Other works by David Chapman mentioned in this episode are:

• In The Cells Of The Eggplant is a book-length treatment of this episode, explaining the application of open-ended curiosity to professional, technical work such as science, engineering, or organizational management.
• "Upgrade your cargo cult for the win" is a long essay version.

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Wonder at the vastness, beauty, and intricacy of the phenomenal world: a texture of the complete stance.

https://meaningness.com/wonder

Recordings mentioned in the episode include:

• "Deference, Humility, and Awe," a lecture by Brian Cantwell Smith.
• Hoppípolla, "a song with qualities known to evoke awe," by Sigur Rós'.

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The fundamental method for resolving problems of meaning: by finding nebulosity, pattern, and their inseparable relationship.

Wonder → curiosity → humor → play → enjoyment → creation. Patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting in the complete stance, which resolves problems of meaning.

https://meaningness.com/finding-complete-stance

https://meaningness.com/complete-textures

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Peak experiences and the complete stance are similar in texture, but differ in intensity, conceptual content, and causes.

Meaning and meaninglessness, pattern and nebulosity all obviously exist—yet we resist recognizing and admitting this. Why?

https://meaningness.com/peak-experiences

https://meaningness.com/complete-stance-obstacles

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Meaning is nebulous, yet patterned; meaningfulness and meaninglessness intermingle. Recognizing this frees us from metaphysical delusions. Resolving problems of meaning, by recognizing inseparable pattern and nebulosity, will improve your life.

https://meaningness.com/meaningness

https://meaningness.com/complete-stance-appeal

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Nihilism says nothing means anything—but no one actually believes that. Lite nihilism weakens the claim, to make it plausible.

https://meaningness.com/nihilism-hardcore-vs-lite

https://meaningness.com/190-proof-nihilism

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Nihilism is the wrong idea that nothing is meaningful, based on the accurate realization that there is no external, eternal source of meaning.

https://meaningness.com/nihilism

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The author has moved the chapter of the book we'll read in today's episode. The chapter now belongs earlier in the book than where we are. It belongs between episode 16, "Meaningfulness", and episode 17, "Eternalism". So, I'm going to back up and read this chapter now, out of order.

Meaning cannot be either objective or subjective. But meaning does exist: as interaction.

https://meaningness.com/objective-subjective

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We're taking a break from narrating Meaningness to read an important foundational essay by the author of Meaningness, David Chapman.

As we reach the end of the Eternalism section of Meaningness, it's time for one of the essays I included in the Patreon backer survey. This essay is an overview by David Chapman of the work of psychologist Robert Kegan, a scholar of adult cognitive development. This essay has become very useful for how I see the situations of my own life, and I'm excited to finally share it with you. David Chapman recently wrote the chapter of Meaningness about Eternalist Systems, and he is currently writing a chapter on how to become meta to systems. That will make a lot more sense after you hear this episode. So while he's writing that chapter, this is a perfect time.

https://vividness.live/developing-ethical-social-and-cognitive-competence

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Accomplishing eternalism would would mean knowing the meaning of everything, and acting accordingly. This is impossible, because there are no fixed meanings.

https://meaningness.com/accomplishing-eternalism

Learning skills for escaping the grip of eternalism—the delusion that everything is meaningful.

https://meaningness.com/after-eternalism

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