The Eternal State of Meaning

     Meaning is the foundation of knowledge. Meaning is a core element of truth. To start, meaning is what gives concepts and information its "weight." It gives a situation or idea its "depth" and gives symbols and ideas their power over the human mind. Without meaning, information would be empty and only surface level in its depth, like looking at a writing system that you don't understand; it can only go so deep.

       Meaning is very abstract and mind based, which makes it hard to quantify in a numerical, measurable way like scaling or gauging it, but it's abstractness is what gives it its eternal nature. It is not bound by entropy, which means meaning doesn't decay or break down or ever cease. Even when words change meaning, the original "meaning" that gave weight didn't change, that word just got a new application for different context.

 Imagine meaning as separate from words, and that human language encodes the meaning in a way where our minds can process it. The meaning is the word's spirit. Without it, words are empty and dead. 

     Meaning can be relative to the observor or studier, meaning that each each observor may interpret something's meaning slightly different than another person relative to that person's nature, position, priorities, and traits.

Meaning can also be universal, having a meaning that is understood by everyone to be what it is.

To me, meaning is timeless and absolute. It only has the illusion of relativity based on the vantage point of certain people and positions. Meaning in those instances just get applied to different contexts and prioritized in different ways. The meaning remains intact in its core substance and spirit regardless of perspective or opinion. "No means no whereever you go" sort of thing.

Since I believe there is an infinite amount of information in existence, I believe also that there is an infinite amount, as well as an infinite depth and complexity, of meaning in existence. 

We've only scratched the surface, and even barely that. 

The most amazing thing to me about meaning and symbolism is that meaning can be retained almost completely intact for thousands of years, even millions possibly if the medium by which the information is inscribed on survives that long. It's not the meaning that decays because of entropy, its the medium on which things are written, like paper or stone.

Just look at scriptures and ancient texts. They retain meaning indefinitely. Even if the meaning of a word or situation is lost, it doesn't mean that particular meaning ceases to exist. It just means the code (words and symbols) has lost its ability to convey the meaning, whether through intranslatability or modern misinterpretation of the metaphor or context.

To me, symbols and abstract ideas, once understood by group or by the species as a whole, has an observable degree of power over people, whether it be power over their thinking, power over behavior, or power over goals and objectives. 

      Some of these things have immense power over people, and people tie their identity into symbols, ideas, and things like iconography to where they view these things and the meaning they represent as a part of themselves

As an infinitist, or "anti-nihilist" as I like to call it, I view meaning as not only legitimate, but as an absolute, like truth or justice, and the system it operates in is entirely infinite, with an indestructible, infinite foundation in reality. 

In short, existence's meaning, both in the big picture term of meaning as well as smaller meanings and applications, is absolute, eternal, and has an infinite, indestructible foundation.