The Search for Super-Meaning: Symbols, Self-Inquiry, and Primordial Perfection

Описание: The topic of meaning is one of the biggest existential problems. Or inquiries that one can undertake. At the same time, there's no clear definition, there's no clear answer to what meaning means, to what makes something meaningful.

There appears to be an inherent desire to live a meaningful life, to have a meaningful relationships, meaningful experiences, even a meaningful connection to something greater than yourself.

Some models of reality even argue that meaning itself, the fundamental, pure form of meaning, is the foundation of reality, that everything expressed beyond that is an expression of meaning, whether we can connect to that and see it and feel it or not.

This talk will look specifically at symbols and super-meaning, symbols being the symbolic domain of the unconscious, and super-meaning inspired by Viktor Frankl, it's the idea of some transcendent meaning that goes beyond personhood that goes beyond the individual and even human.
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00:00 Intro
00:22 Perspectives on Meaning
02:08 The Definitions and Etymology of Meaning
05:00 Is Meaning Inherent?
09:00 Symbolic Meaning and Primordial Intelligence
12:25 The Subject vs. Object Dichotomy
15:30 Relative Meaning vs. Super-meaning
18:50 'Trying' to Find Meaning
22:40 Questions to Reflect On
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