The meaning crisis is, at root, a breakdown in cross-scale coupling—i.e., being out of synchrony with higher scales of causality beyond the isolated individual.

Higher scales cannot be compressed into the local mind because the effective complexity of the larger system exceeds the modeling capacity of the smaller agent.

Therefore, the only sustainable way an embedded organism can relate to higher-order patterns is through calibrated openness or permeability; what I will call faith.

Multiscale causality and the meaning crisis

Ruben Laukkonen