Cognitive scientist Anna Riedl helps me get a sense of the emerging paradigm in cogsci and beyond dedicated to understanding how we make meaning in an uncertain and entropic world. After that, we tackle ideas Anna is working on informed by her experience with and critique of effective altruism: a framework she provisionally calls "autopoiethics," which relates to the normative decision-making processes of autopoetic systems.

0:00 Introduction

I. State of the Art in Meaning Studies

1:22 Meaning, Relevance, and Rationality

11:28 Synthesizing Abstract and Particular

21:56 Metarationality and the Transjective Frame

30:03 A New Paradigm?

40:41 Related Fields and Thinkers

II. Autopoethics

52:11 Normativity and Collective Welfare

57:06 Autopoietic Normativity vs. Effective Altruism

1:15:05 Perspectival Values

1:26:50 Function vs. Process

1:31:44 Conclusion

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74. The Meaning Paradigm, and "Autopoiethics" (w/ Anna Riedl)