The idea of meaning is contradictory, it's not strictly an illusion. There's a huge difference. State changes mean differences, they don't ensure meaning. This is an obvious criteria. We have tasks and the demands are variable. We can assign meaning, but where is the credibility? Is it ever objectively understood? No. That's contradictory.

You have to look at mental events and grasp not only what they are, both material and process, how the come to happen, they're both prior and post-hoc, etc.

I study meaning in the brain. We are nit sure if it exists and the meaning we see in events and tasks are at a massive load. Any one event can have 100s even 1000s of meaningful changes to self, environment and others. That's contradictory. Searle is not even scratching the surface of the problem.

https://arxiv.org/vc/arxiv/papers/1811/1811.06825v2.pdf

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39282373/

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...

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