The Cognitive Science of the Meaning Crisis

It is time to move from the historical analysis of the collapse of the three orders. We need to turn now to a cognitive scientific analysis of meaning-making itself, he says. I propose that what we do is try to use our best science as a way of trying to build a theoretical structure for recovering and salvaging what we can of the axial legacy. And hopefully that science will also afford the engineering of new systematic sets of psychotechnologies, practices of self-transcendence.