So I agree with the science you cite, right? But what you said really doesn’t follow. Just because our phonologic loop doesn’t actually have the control it thinks it does, it doesn’t follow that sensory modalities are “meaningless.” You might want to re-read Joy in the Merely Real with this thought of yours in mind.
Well, sure, you can find meaning wherever you want. I’m currently listening to some music that I find beautiful and meaningful. But that beauty and meaning isn’t an inherent trait of the music, it’s just something that I read into it. Similarly when I say that consciousness is meaningless I don’t mean that we should all become nihilists, only that consciousness doesn’t pay rent and so any meaning or usefulness it has is what you invent for it.
So I agree with the science you cite, right? But what you said really doesn’t follow. Just because our phonologic loop doesn’t actually have the control it thinks it does, it doesn’t follow that sensory modalities are “meaningless.” You might want to re-read Joy in the Merely Real with this thought of yours in mind.
Well, sure, you can find meaning wherever you want. I’m currently listening to some music that I find beautiful and meaningful. But that beauty and meaning isn’t an inherent trait of the music, it’s just something that I read into it. Similarly when I say that consciousness is meaningless I don’t mean that we should all become nihilists, only that consciousness doesn’t pay rent and so any meaning or usefulness it has is what you invent for it.