>It's going to come as a surprise to many that it is only to be found in the individual.

I'm going to give this a YnEoS as an answer.

So, yes, meaning is individual and occurs in your mind.

Also, no, your ideas of what meaning should even be in the first time are affected by your collective endeavor, your political party, your football team, your religious group, and your country. There will be a statistically high correlation with of your views of what meaning is and your affiliations with any of the above parties.

>hat is missed with this sort of anthropomorphising is what is actually occurring: the denigration of what it is to be human and to have meaning. A simulacrum is, by definition, not the thing-in-itself, but for nefarious reasons, this line will be heavily blurred. Imo.

I mean, isn't the meaning of being human to live on the Serengeti plains, fighting for survival and enough food to eat, and everything since then is just the simulacrum? Humans create society which create the simulacrum in the first place. That line was blurred so long ago we have no idea where it even existed.