Making Meaning

The trouble with life is it almost makes sense. It appears to follow laws and logic and it even seems possible to predict it and rely on it. Night follows day, and maybe the other way around too but you never get two nights in a row and then a day and then two more nights. You won’t get a Wednesday the day after a Sunday, not unless you’re Keith Richards. This apparent order is misleading if we take it to mean that the universe has some kind of meaning or purpose. The universe is all there is and therefore has no context in which it could have meaning or purpose. Apparently within the universe or within life things can and do have purpose and meaning, for example the meaning and purpose of red traffic lights or of words in a language or the infinite meanings of people and things in our lives. But these are all made up meanings, invented by us. 

Realising that life has no intrinsic meaning on its own but at the same time recognising that human beings are meaning machines and have had meaning programmed into them by culture since birth, in Reality Games we deliberately make our own meaning by looking for and inventing patterns in what appears to be happening.

In Reality Games the process of creating our own meaning through “games” or thought experiments and pattern recognition is both an artistic and existential endeavour. It invites us to actively engage with our world, seeking connections and crafting interpretations that resonate with our lived experiences. This pursuit of meaning-making emphasises the creativity inherent in being human—transforming both randomness and routine into a tapestry of personal significance.