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Record W4388007483 · doi:10.31234/osf.io/5ycsr

Biological and Cultural Avenues to Meaning in Life

2023· preprint· en· W4388007483 on OpenAlexaff
Liane Gabora

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicOrigins and Evolution of Life
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSocial connectednessMeaning (existential)EpistemologySociologyPhenomenonMeaning-makingConceptual frameworkSocial psychologyPsychologySocial science

Abstract

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Some find meaning in life by rearing offspring and leaving a biological legacy. Others find meaning in life by developing and sharing ideas, and leaving a cultural legacy. To leave a cultural legacy requires that one build on existing knowledge in a new and meaningful way. This in turn requires that one’s knowledge and experiences have coalesced into an integrated web of understandings, such that old ideas can be looked at in new ways. The emergence of this kind of integrated conceptual web, or worldview, has been modeled using autocatalytic networks, which grew out of graph theory, and which exhibit sharp transitions in connectedness. They have been used to explain the near-inevitability of an integrated conceptual network emerging in a young child’s mind. Thus, the desire to leave a cultural legacy is neither born nor bred, though both evolved biological pressures and social learning play a role; rather it is an emergent phenomenon that arises due to the presence of percolation thresholds in connected graphs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.180
Threshold uncertainty score0.337

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.078
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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