What a treat! Having evolved such similar thinking over the course of my life, I could hardly believe the beautiful and thoughtful articulation herein presented. I also believe that creation happens all the time and that the creators sometimes create new creators. And the creators often create unintentionally - not nearly always willfully. And I so agree about the meaning we assign vs inherent meaning. We do alot of co-creating as well. There is so much to do and appreciate!
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A part of me wants to believe in syntropy as well as entropy, in retrocausality, and the hope that maybe we don’t have to make our own meaning. That it’s already been made for us. That there IS something bigger than us. Some force.
But is that because I’m avoiding the hard work of making my own meaning ? Is that me trying to take the short cut ?
Because I do feel something pulling me forward, that is separate from me.
If you’ve written about this Mike and set out whether (or not) some form of syntropy could exist, can you point me to the note please ? I would love to read your thoughts. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the beautiful question. And it is a very beautiful question. And I think it deserves a very serious answer. One which I will engage with now.
I haven’t written explicitly on syntropy and retrocausality, but I suspect the reason I haven’t is because, in a way, all my writing is about this. Because if syntropy does exist, if there is a force pulling us forward, then it is indistinguishable from what we are already doing: constructing meaning, holding the center, pushing back the flood.
The question you ask—is this a shortcut?—is exactly the right one. And I think the answer is: it depends. If believing that meaning already exists is an abdication of responsibility, a way of avoiding the labor of meaning-making, then yes, it is a shortcut. But if it is an invitation into a deeper sense of purpose—if it calls you into the work of making meaning rather than excusing you from it—then perhaps it is not a shortcut at all. Perhaps it is simply another way of describing what we already know intuitively: that meaning, though made, is not arbitrary. That it is constrained, shaped, and refined by forces greater than us—forces we did not invent, but to which we must respond.
In this sense, I don’t think syntropy and meaning-making are necessarily in opposition. Perhaps the reason we feel pulled forward is because coherence, truth, and flourishing are not just inventions, but discoveries—real things that emerge through the process of our engagement with the world. Perhaps what we call making meaning is actually aligning ourselves with something deeper—not because that something exists fully-formed, waiting for us, but because it is brought into being through our struggle to find it.
And if that is true, then this work—the work of philosophy, of thinking, of building—is syntropy. It is the force pulling us toward coherence. It is the retrocausal pressure of meaning not yet fully realized, but waiting to be revealed through our participation in it.
Maybe the most we can say is this: whether or not there is something bigger than us, the only way to find it is to build toward it. The only way to know if meaning is given is to act as though it must be made.
And if, in the end, we discover that meaning was waiting for us all along—then perhaps the making and the finding were never separate after all.
And in a Spinzoan way, this is the process of moving closer to God. Deus sive Natura. There’s no danger of nihilism there. Our own contingencies prove to us that there’s reason to have faith!
One must imagine Sisyphus happy!
Yes. And one must imagine him building something along the way.
What a treat! Having evolved such similar thinking over the course of my life, I could hardly believe the beautiful and thoughtful articulation herein presented. I also believe that creation happens all the time and that the creators sometimes create new creators. And the creators often create unintentionally - not nearly always willfully. And I so agree about the meaning we assign vs inherent meaning. We do alot of co-creating as well. There is so much to do and appreciate!
Beautiful words, but its form factor fits tenacious intellectuals who are already converted. To widen the audience, get AI to convert it into an ASMR-style audio-file with optional graphics in soft-dream-style, using fade-transitiones to avoid pulling focus from the words. Then ask your followers to repost this asset for you, trusting that they will know where it needs to go.
Thank you for this.
A part of me wants to believe in syntropy as well as entropy, in retrocausality, and the hope that maybe we don’t have to make our own meaning. That it’s already been made for us. That there IS something bigger than us. Some force.
But is that because I’m avoiding the hard work of making my own meaning ? Is that me trying to take the short cut ?
Because I do feel something pulling me forward, that is separate from me.
If you’ve written about this Mike and set out whether (or not) some form of syntropy could exist, can you point me to the note please ? I would love to read your thoughts. Much appreciated.
Thanks for the beautiful question. And it is a very beautiful question. And I think it deserves a very serious answer. One which I will engage with now.
I haven’t written explicitly on syntropy and retrocausality, but I suspect the reason I haven’t is because, in a way, all my writing is about this. Because if syntropy does exist, if there is a force pulling us forward, then it is indistinguishable from what we are already doing: constructing meaning, holding the center, pushing back the flood.
The question you ask—is this a shortcut?—is exactly the right one. And I think the answer is: it depends. If believing that meaning already exists is an abdication of responsibility, a way of avoiding the labor of meaning-making, then yes, it is a shortcut. But if it is an invitation into a deeper sense of purpose—if it calls you into the work of making meaning rather than excusing you from it—then perhaps it is not a shortcut at all. Perhaps it is simply another way of describing what we already know intuitively: that meaning, though made, is not arbitrary. That it is constrained, shaped, and refined by forces greater than us—forces we did not invent, but to which we must respond.
In this sense, I don’t think syntropy and meaning-making are necessarily in opposition. Perhaps the reason we feel pulled forward is because coherence, truth, and flourishing are not just inventions, but discoveries—real things that emerge through the process of our engagement with the world. Perhaps what we call making meaning is actually aligning ourselves with something deeper—not because that something exists fully-formed, waiting for us, but because it is brought into being through our struggle to find it.
And if that is true, then this work—the work of philosophy, of thinking, of building—is syntropy. It is the force pulling us toward coherence. It is the retrocausal pressure of meaning not yet fully realized, but waiting to be revealed through our participation in it.
Maybe the most we can say is this: whether or not there is something bigger than us, the only way to find it is to build toward it. The only way to know if meaning is given is to act as though it must be made.
And if, in the end, we discover that meaning was waiting for us all along—then perhaps the making and the finding were never separate after all.
And in a Spinzoan way, this is the process of moving closer to God. Deus sive Natura. There’s no danger of nihilism there. Our own contingencies prove to us that there’s reason to have faith!
Thank you for your even more beautiful reply Mike. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond.
Maybe this energetic force is pulling me towards doing the work. I like that.
Again, thank you for taking the time.