Brendan Graham Dempsey - The meaning of meaning

<p>What is meaning, and is it real? Andrew Sweeny talks with writer and researcher Brendan Graham Dempsey about his new book, The Evolution of Meaning, Volume 1: Cosmos to Culture.Brendan describes his path from evangelical faith, through a painful loss of belief and a long stretch of nihilism, to a new account of meaning grounded in thermodynamics and information theory. In this view, meaning is the information that keeps any living thing from falling apart. From there the conversation turns to value and the sacred, whether science and mysticism can share a language, Brendan&#39;s map of the different things &quot;God&quot; can mean, a thermodynamic theory of the sacred, and the data he gathered showing how human meaning-making has grown more complex across history.BOOKThe Evolution of Meaning, Vol. 1: Cosmos to CultureAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLTHTHG1/Book website: https://evolutionofmeaning.comBrendan&#39;s Substack: https://brendangrahamdempsey.substack.comPARALLAXWebsite: https://www.parallax-media.comParallax Academy (courses): https://www.parallax-media.com/the-parallax-academyNewsletter: https://parallax.substack.comSupport Parallax: https://www.parallax-media.com/donate#MeaningCrisis #Metamodernism #Philosophy```</p>