Gospel koan 60.5
The success of meaning
Koan 60.5
All meaning makes sense in probability: 'that which is able to prove' and not improbability: 'that which is able to prove—not'.
Summary exposition
The central mechanism is that meaning arises from consilience—the probability of a proposition 'lying against' a network of other data, whether external (objective consensus) or internal (subjective coherence). A single, potent example is a personal memory; its 'proof' and meaning are strengthened not by external validation, but by how well it coheres and aligns with your other memories and self-narrative. The implication is that objectivity and subjectivity are gradients of the same process. Proof is the condition where an intention finds sufficient consonance within a cognitive lattice, be it private or shared, to be accepted as real and meaningful, rendering the improbable ontologically void.
