Fluidity

People think they approach meaning in terms of religions or philosophies, but in practice, "stances" matter more.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/stances-trump-systems

Stances—responses to meaning—are unstable thought-patterns. Often we adopt several contradictory ones in rapid succession.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/stances-are-unstable

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Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

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Mistaken attitudes toward meaning create unnecessary psychological/spiritual/existential suffering.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/misunderstanding-meaningness-makes-many-miserable

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

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

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Meaningness is the quality of being meaningful or meaningless.

Original text here:

https://meaningness.com/what-is-meaningness

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.

Two stances that don't work: "Everything has a definite meaning" and "Nothing means anything."

The original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism

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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.

I make audiobooks and release them as podcasts.

The 20th-century systematic mode of social organization provided pre-packaged meaning, value, purpose, and ethics. It broke down. We entered an internet-enabled atomized mode of social organization, splintered into a kaleidoscope of meanings, without context. Audiobooks narrated in the Fluidity podcast will look toward constructing a fluid mode.

Welcome to episode 1 of the next book, a work of non-fiction by David Chapman, a Buddhist and a former artificial intelligence researcher. "Meaningness" takes problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turns them into practical problems, which are more tractable.

This ten-minute introductory episode will give you a taste of this approach.

Original text here: https://meaningness.com/an-appetizer-purpose

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

Music is by Kevin MacLeod.

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