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ANNOTATION:
meaning making is the optimization of fitness
I would agree, meaning making must provide sume survival benefit or we would not spend so much time and energy upon the process of finding or creating meaning. I think that assumeing a connection between the serch for optimal fitness and meaning making is appropriate. Exactly what processes are being optimized is unclear, and so is the level at which this optimization occurrs, i.e. the individual, the species genepool or the total gene pool of all living organism. What I am trying to get at is that the approch to optimal fitness occurs at all levels, from the physical to the chemical, biological, psychological, social, cutural, species, all of life inself, and also with the environment. But meaning making is a particular human activity. Thus, I would relate meaning making to those organism which have developed self-consciousness. Self-consciousness introduces a paradox in that this I that sees itself also requires that we justify ourselves to it. This I or eye, eye of Horus, this evil eye, sees all, hears all and knows all that we do, even if done in secret and alone. This I(eye) is inescapable. it demans loyalty in the form of a blood oarth, if we fail in our task to find meaning, to justify our actions we will suffer and expereince pain so great that we will be willing to do anthing to escape its power. We will try to make ourselves unconscious of that which we are ashamed, or if this does not work we will pushich and hurt ourselves and if even this does not work we will sometimes even take our own life.
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