Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Ep. 29 - Getting to the Depths of Relevance Realization
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Aug 2, 2019 AI Snips
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Relevance Realization's Importance
- Relevance realization is central to human cognition, including intelligence, agency, and consciousness.
- It may also explain the core of meaning-making, connecting us to coherence, significance, and purpose.
Representations and Relevance
- Representations are aspectual, meaning they don't grasp all properties of an object but select relevant subsets.
- This implies that representations cannot be the source of relevance, but rather presuppose it.
Finsting and Meaning
- "Finsting" (Fingers of Instantiation) is a pre-categorical, pre-conceptual way of tracking objects by their "hereness and nowness."
- This fundamental connection to reality is pre-representational and potentially links to ineffable experiences of meaning.