You may be interested in Kevin Simler’s essay A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning, which is a sort of graph-theory flavored take on meaning and purpose. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much mileage he got out of his working definition, how many examples of meaningful vs not-meaningful things it explains:
A thing X will be perceived as meaningful in context C to the extent that it’s connected to other meaningful things in C.
You may be interested in Kevin Simler’s essay A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning, which is a sort of graph-theory flavored take on meaning and purpose. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much mileage he got out of his working definition, how many examples of meaningful vs not-meaningful things it explains: