Experience +context +value to me = Meaning

• Definition:
  

The Meaning of a new experience, is the perceived relationship of the new experience, to previous meanings of previous similar experiences, in relation to the perceived values (good or bad for me) of the individual creating the meaning.

• To make meaning, is to determine the value of an experience, to the meaning maker.

• Making Meaning from new experience, is context dependent. (assigning the experience to a previous established category which is similar to this experience)

• Contextual categories are contrived haphazardly as experiences are accumulated.

• Contexts, are the current accumulated categories of meanings, of all previous experiences.

• Context then is the chosen category to which the current experience belongs because of it's similarity to other experiences stored in the same category.

• In this way, one experience, can have many different meanings, simply by shifting contexts.

• This multiplicity of meanings is a good thing because multiple meanings conserve storage by maximizing the utility of each individual experience.

• Contextualizing then allows for additional experiences to be (associated) cataloged together, and the resultant model to become richer with the addition new and similar experiences.

• The reason for the richness is that, similarities are not exactly the same, just alike in some way or ways and different in some or many other ways. And so the richness is the degree to which the experiences differ and are similar. Rather like a line with a zero point diverging in both directions. With an accumulation of similarities and differences.

• The making of Meaning concerning an experience is created by; comparing the (internal Representation/perception) of an experience with other experiences; then determining which of those remembered experiences is most similar to this experience; and then finally determining the relationship of the new experience to (this/these) previously remembered experiences.
  

• In this way, previous experiences, which we shall call context, determines in large part, the meaning of new experiences.

• This creation of meaning doesn't exist except, uniquely, in the mind of the meaning creator.

• This subjectivity is true for all meaning.

• Existence exists. Existence has no meaning. We provide the meaning.

• The creation of meaning, concerning existence, is a subjective emergent property of each individuals brain functioning.

• Creation of ALL meaning is an emergent property of the brains functions of the (perceived) sensory streams of experiences of each beholder.

• Meaning is not a given. Meaning is NOT a property (attribute) of existents!

• Meaning is derived (created, invented, contrived) from the activities of the brain as it functions.
  

• So meaning is derived from the input, and the processing, about the inputs perceived value to help or hinder the subjects existence.

• If we take this creation of meaning process, as a premise, and add the evolutionary goals of survival and replication, we can then suppose some hardwired properties of intelligence as existing at birth.

• It would appear that the transformation of the matrix of sensory data streams into remembered gestalt perceptions, caused by remembering them as they occur repeatedly, is the hardwired part of the process of cognition.

• Perception is the raw data (referents/origin) of concepts (words with definitions) and therefore the referents and therefore the origin/source of meaning.

• If knowledge of perceptual streams is knowledge of the world. Then concepts of meaning created from these perceptual streams are concepts about the relationship of the world to the self.

• So all meaning is the relationship of existence to the self.

• Which means what does it (the perceptual stream of experience) mean to me.

• The details, of how this meaning is uniquely created, may provide additional insight, as to how differences of meaning may become part of our individual knowledge of the world.
  

• This is somewhat of a puzzle since all perceptions of existence originate from existence.

• The next question seems to be, what are the errors that creep into our knowledge, and how do they manifest themselves in our lives. So some type of list of errors with some type of system of creating categories to sort them seems to be in order.

• This might suggest that some value system is required in order that the sorting of the errors to be measured against.

• All in all it seems like an interesting project to pursue.