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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 machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.027

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.045
Scholarly communication0.0100.013
Open science0.0010.007
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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