Gospel koan 60.3

Meaning and sense

Koan 60.3

All meaning is 'intending' thus sent: 'caused to go' that it might be sensed: 'transduced', 'lead across' toward potential as memory.

Summary exposition

The central mechanism is the transduction of meaning, where an intention is dispatched from a source to be received and translated by a sensor. A single, potent example is a cry of pain; it is an intention sent into the world, but its reception is filtered through the listener's internal interpretive framework, which may transduce it as genuine distress, manipulation, or a call for help. The implication is that meaning is an active, communicative event whose reality is not fixed at its origin but is finalized—and often altered—upon its sensing. This ontological gap is precisely where the 'against' dimension of condition manifests: meaning may be declared against the recipient's interpretive framework, resulting in miscommunication, resistance, or creative reinterpretation. The conference of meaning is thus always a negotiation between what is sent (together) and how it is received (potentially against).

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by John Mackay

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