Friday, April 13, 2012

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