The Meaning of Meaning

[This idea is still being constructed and tested. I welcome any comments.]

MEANING IS A PROPRIOCEPTIVE RESPONSE

The first thing to note is that I have nested {needs Glossary entry} Meaning into the bigger basket I call Body Studies because it is a physiological phenomenon.

The production/perception of Meaning involves flesh. [This is the project, the field, of biosemiotics. {need glossary entry}] 

The union of meaning and flesh is has gone unapprehended for centuries in western culture. This bisection was begun way back in the 500 BC range in Greece. Heraclitus defended the union but those who insisted body and soul are of different essence, or they are each elementary, prevailed. Einstein rightly observed that you can only see what your theory allows you to see. Thus we have not found meaning in the body because Meaning is the Body.

[see The Spread Mind, Manzotti].

[I have several posts I'm preparing off-line. This one will take precedence. I'm giving it front-page status. It may be a revolutionary idea. I have been working on eliminating stashes of chronic musculoskeletal pain, accumulated through years of chronic fatigue and other gremlins. I hone in on one and find a movement that begins to set off the pain signal. I hold my attention there, hold the posture, then I let go of any tensions in the body, any enlistment, and let it go. I was in a pesky shoulder, I did not need this tension in my jaw, around my eyes, hands, etc. Move my attention to wherever feeling tension and let it go. As I did this the sensation in my shoulder I had called "pain" lost its meaning, became simply a sensation.]

Pain can be defined as sensation married to meaning, to particular meaning sets. {will be fleshed out and in}