Don't miss Pixy Misa's belated comment on Irrational Logoists:
Posted by David Boxenhorn at January 16, 2005 04:30 PMHi David. I missed this back when you posted it.
Perhaps I should explain myself further:
My position is that the Universe does not have meaning. The Universe simply is. (That's somewhat tautological, because I define the Universe as what exists, but anyway...)
Meaning is what intelligence generates when applied to the Universe. It does not, indeed cannot exist of itself; it is the product of the process of thought.
All this is just fluffy bunnies though unless we defined meaning. Until you do that, you can't say, for example, what you mean when you say "it would imply that an Islamist’s meaning is just as meaningful as Pixy Misa’s".
Certainly my worldview is more founded in reality, more productive, more conducive to happiness and learning in myself and my fellow man, than that of the Islamists. Does that make the "meaning" I have created for myself more "valid" than the "meaning" the Islamists have created for themselves? I dunno. But it's a hell of a lot better.