u/LankySimple9051

You know something from already having been exposed to it, and by recognizing it. The mechanism is effortless (as KISS as you can get). Pattern is matched to pattern without the help of anything demanding the exercise of free will and/or choosing. You encounter something, the digits of pi or the lyrics of a song for example, and you know what you are looking at. If you did not recognize them you'd be without much hope of first generating them to then recognize with them.

With as few as 5 words in an expression you can guess the 6th with impressive accuracy. Cognition can be faked this way by a LLM. With enough recognition, a poem-puzzle can be solved without much effort.

JP seems to have understood this, as he went looking to recognize facial expressions as a way to avoid thinking about things at all. We can possibly recognize he is at this again by using other silent means of communication. If we do it's an effortless gain.

The best thing about this sort of mechanism is the solve can select for you. It's very humbling, because the solver ends up being like a slumdog millionaire just facing things he recognizes. He comes out looking like a genius. And, of course, you'd be accused of cheating.

Success comes from preparedness. It is very much like a lottery ticket containing a multi-digit combination. The hope is that there's a ticket out there with this solve' s combination on it. As JP gives out hints the match becomes more likely to express itself if we recognize the clue.

You tell me.

On the heals of the u/BOTG-BeyondTME post made yesterday I first questioned why he referred to the dot as a period. That turns out to be an example of two people choosing a word (a symbol) among a few that work, but that isn't a forced choice that best fits. The dot/period, if called a point, bridges concepts. The point=the meaning. This reaches out even into "The Eleventh Hour" where one is presented with: "Drawing conclusions from sketchy clues may lead you astray, so sharpen your wits." Get the point? That's given on pointy pencils.

The point is what HGTTG has fun with. The absurd answer is 42, but what was the question? No one remembered. It's a question of meaning.

"Can you find what lives in time, flowing through each measured rhyme?" is a meaningless question unless we adopt a certain philosophical point of view. He's given his. The search for meaning is produced by personal experience if it is knowable at all for a zetetic. Try and search for the best fitting interpretation. Do not come with a rule 42 or an article 42 (forcing reason or rules to align with his choices). Come with the idea that awareness/consciousness is in you. That's the spark in each of us that contains all that is necessary to produce a best-fitting answer.

What is good enough works. It doesn't have to be perfected reason. A foolish, almost illogical, interpretation of his poem may suffice. Use your wits=your gifts.

The meaning of anything actually applies to time. It is nothing but an experience. What does it mean to exist? Now you potentially know why JP is pointing to Hamlet. Should we want to exist? It's an existential question. "To be or not to be...?" What is the point of shuffling on this mortal coil? What lies in the undiscovered country beyond the edge of cognitive maps? Shakespeare explores the question from a character's perspective. See if that aligns with your experience.

Meaning is present in time and it flows through all his measured rhymes. What is the point? It's to help guide you to a treasure. What is the meaning of a treasure? His interpretation of that is at least two-fold.

By adopting this perspective you can seamlessly move into line 3 and 4 and tackle the meaning of Wisdom which waits in shadowed sight. Her name is Sophia (symbol Phi), and it is her role to wait in the shadows for that spark in you to fire up and cause you to "see the light" in the world of shadows.

WS, from the double alliteration, will cause some to see William Shakespeare again. If it does trust it because mimetic mechanisms are at play. Don't deduce it. Accept that you can know it by experience.