I make audiobooks and release them as podcasts.

The 20th-century systematic mode of social organization provided pre-packaged meaning, value, purpose, and ethics. It broke down. We entered an internet-enabled atomized mode of social organization, splintered into a kaleidoscope of meanings, without context. Audiobooks narrated in the Fluidity podcast will look toward constructing a fluid mode.

Welcome to episode 1 of the next book, a work of non-fiction by David Chapman, a Buddhist and a former artificial intelligence researcher. "Meaningness" takes problems of meaning-making, typically considered spiritual, and turns them into practical problems, which are more tractable.

This ten-minute introductory episode will give you a taste of this approach.

Original text here:
https://meaningness.com/an-appetizer-purpose

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

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Music is by Kevin MacLeod.

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Two stances that don't work: “Everything has a definite meaning” and “Nothing means anything.”

The original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Meaningness is the quality of being meaningful or meaningless.

Original text here:

https://meaningness.com/what-is-meaningness

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Mistaken attitudes toward meaning create unnecessary psychological/spiritual/existential suffering.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/misunderstanding-meaningness-makes-many-miserable

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

People think they approach meaning in terms of religions or philosophies, but in practice, "stances" matter more.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/stances-trump-systems

Stances—responses to meaning—are unstable thought-patterns. Often we adopt several contradictory ones in rapid succession.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/stances-are-unstable

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Meaningness is cloud-like: nebulous. It is real, but impossible to completely pin down.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/nebulosity

Brains automatically find meaning and pattern; we need them to act. Unfortunately, brains also find meaning and pattern where there are none.

Original text is here:

https://meaningness.com/pattern

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Fixation and denial are the two simplest ways of refusing to deal with the nebulosity of meaningness.

https://meaningness.com/fixation-and-denial

Wrong ideas about meaning come in mirror-image pairs, which fixate and deny opposite aspects of reality.

https://meaningness.com/confused-stances-come-in-pairs

Polarized pairs of confused stances cannot be resolved by compromise. There is no middle way between them.

https://meaningness.com/no-middle-way

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.

Note: This is episode 8, but it first aired with the audio file for episode 9. I have now corrected it, so you may wish to listen again.

Confusions about meaning can be resolved using a method for looking at ways nebulosity affects the subject matter.

Original text here: https://meaningness.com/resolution

The method for resolving confusion about meaning through accepting nebulosity is not a general dialectic, or logic for resolving all false oppositions.

Original text here: https://meaningness.com/not-a-general-dialectic

You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks

If you like the show, consider buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mattarnold

Original music by Kevin MacLeod.

This podcast is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial International 4.0 License.