What is "Meaning"?

While searching for meaning of life, I stumbled upon this questions during meditation and understanding has been quite enriching.

When humans say something has some "Meaning" they merely mean they have found an association of Experience in Their Mind" with something else that Mind already has experienced or has stored

There is vast experience that goes unnoticed by human mind merely because there is nothing to associate that experience with. In other words our mind is only capable for detecting meaning with reference to something else. If there is no reference there is no meaning to human mind.

Human mind also has capability to store short term occurrences for a limited times span that also gives us ability to use sequence of events or images or experiences as "One Experience" and see meaning of that sequence as a whole.

Want an example? Here is it?

What is the meaning of "UWVHMTDBR"?

Not think what is the meaning of "DOG"

Get the point? Second one has meaning to common mind purely because there is a stored association in mind. In reality the first one is as meaningful as the second one.

- The explorer

What is Reality? Why do I act the way I do?

A little bit of clarity on following questions after a while with minimal set of variables

What is reality for me? How does it affect my actions? What is reality for others?

Reality for me is a mind experience created by six factors
1. Inputs received at that moment on my five senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell
2. My memory - A collective of my stored experiences, my attitudes and beliefs of what is right/wrong, good / bad (in line with survival and out of line of survival needs) for me.

Together these seven creates an emotional & dynamic experience for me every moment of life.

This also means, in the same environment (sensory inputs), two individuals can experience radically different experietial reality as the sixth factor is uniquely individual and developed over the life time of an individual.

Why I do what I do every moment of my life, every day, week & year?

There are two factors that determine my actions all the time
1. The momentum! -
The momentum is the biggest single factor that dictates what I do most of the time. Momentum is simply the way I have lived my life or I do things or I have decided to do things earlier in time).

I keep doing things that I do or I have decided to do earlier unless there is a force (Experiential reality) that makes me change the direction of the ongoing momentum.

2. My experiential reality (discussed above) is a moderating factor to momentum and helps me take minor decision or deviations in line with survival needs. A drastic change in experiential reality than what was expected can also make me change the direction that momentum dictates at most the times.

Example - I go to office every day at almost a decided time, dictated by the momentum. But an experiential reality of my child being sick can change the momentum a little bit or if the experiential reality is that child is very sick and needs to be hospitalised can drastically change the momentum or create a different short term/long term momentum of actions.

Q2 - How does collective reality and momentum shape the world?

1. The collective momentum is order of magnitude larger force than individual momentum that shape the destiny of the world most of times. It generally needs order of magnitude bigger shocks or changes to change these ongoing momentums.

2. Individual experiential realities most of the time can only create blips on the long term momentum waves and at times if there is a large collective experiential wave, it can also change the collective social momentum.

- The explorer