cores of clouds 1

words and individuals might be better regarded as anchoring points for essences (meaning and identity) rather than essences in themselves, in other words, as anchoring points for reference and self-identity where conceptual ripples rebounding from surrounding words and individuals converge into... yes, like light from surfaces (incidentally, sorry for the clouded way of transitions, it seems, in the end, I just couldn't avoid incoherence, so the question remains: where am I most of the time? lost in the clouds?)

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• words
• inviduals
• meaning
• identity
• differences in constellation

[soulfetcher]

Excellent ideas Mark. A thoughtfull and clear description of the difficult buddhist idea of emptiness. The idea of the cloud of relationships as an entity out of which meaning emerges is very important - called the memesphere, or noosphere or collective unconscious, and which also carries our sense of "I". The materialist bias in the way we think of 'words' and 'selfs' gives rise to a lot of the illusions we carry about our personal reality, and how we are in the world. Great stuff.