Self-evident

Picture this: A traveller in the mountains finds a rock formation in the shape of a cross. What does this mean? If our traveler is a Christian, he might read all kinds of religious meaning into the discovery and kneel down to pray. A scientist might touch the stone and recognise it as limestone, and how continual rain corroded the rock in such a way so to form the cross. A child might see the rock as a climbing frame and swing from its horizontal bars.

In this example we can readily see there is objective fact in the form of the rock, and subjective experience - religious, scientific and child-like.

My subjective experience is self-evident to me, but can not be measured by any third party. There is no conclusive science as to what consciousness is. And with meaning being in the eye of the beholder, we would need to bridge that consciousness-physicality gap first before stretching any particular meaning across it. Does that make sense?

But what if meaning was not particular? Look at it this way, everyone who "is", readily understands "I am". Perhaps the meaning of life is not what we are, or how we are, but "that we are."

-AW
Leicester, England

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