Fluidity

Fluidity

By Matt ArnoldSociety & CultureScienceSocial SciencesPhilosophy
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Fluidity episodes

  • A Schematic Overview Of All Stances

    At 48 minutes, this episode is longer than most. A complete summary overview of all the dimensions of meaningness, with all the common stances one can take to them.

    Original text at: https://meaningness.com/all-dimensions-schematic-overview

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    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

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    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    49 min
  • Bonus Metacast: Book Planning

    This mid-week bonus episode features a 20-minute excerpt from my interview with David Chapman, in which we discuss his plans for finishing Meaningness.

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    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    24 min
  • The Big Three Stance Combinations

    Dualism, nihilism, and monism are the three main approaches to fundamental questions of meaning. This book proposes a better, fourth alternative.

    This begins the third section of Meaningness, "Doing Meaning Better".

    Original text at: https://meaningness.com/big-three-stance-combinations

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    13 min
  • Relating To Stances

    Relationships one may have with "stances" (basic attitudes toward meaningness) include adopting, committing, accomplishing, wavering, and appropriating.

    This ends the second section of Meaningness, an introduction to stances.

    Original text at: https://meaningness.com/relationships-with-stances

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    9 min
  • The Psychological Anatomy Of A Stance

    The key aspects of a stance toward meaning, and how to use them effectively.

    Original text here: https://meaningness.com/stance-anatomy

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    11 min
  • Meaningness As A Liberating Practice

    A practice of replacing confused, dysfunctional patterns of thinking and feeling about meaning with accurate ones.

    Original text here: https://meaningness.com/meaningness-practice

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    9 min
  • Confusion, Completion, Misery, and Joy

    Properly understanding meaning eliminates needless suffering. An application: ethics.

    Original text here: https://meaningness.com/confusion-completion-misery-and-joy

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    9 min
  • Accepting Nebulosity, And, Not A General Dialectic

    Note: This is episode 8, but it first aired with the audio file for episode 9. I have now corrected it, so you may wish to listen again.

    Confusions about meaning can be resolved using a method for looking at ways nebulosity affects the subject matter.

    Original text here: https://meaningness.com/resolution

    The method for resolving confusion about meaning through accepting nebulosity is not a general dialectic, or logic for resolving all false oppositions.

    Original text here: https://meaningness.com/not-a-general-dialectic

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    7 min
  • Fixation & Denial - Confused Stances Come In Pairs - No Middle Way

    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 of confused stances cannot be resolved by compromise. There is no middle way between them.

    https://meaningness.com/no-middle-way

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    16 min
  • Nebulosity and Pattern

    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:

    https://meaningness.com/pattern

    You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

    https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

    If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

    Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

    This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

    12 min

About Fluidity

From the publisher's feed

After the collapse of the 20th-century systematic mode of social organization, how can we move from our internet-enabled atomized mode, toward a fluid mode? We take problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turn them into practical problems, which are more tractable.