Passion from Puzzle Pieces

Perhaps I should not have said I have no conscious experience of my genetics, after all I certainly have some experiences because of my genetics, for example medical predispositions, or even social stigma (or status) attached to various ethnic phenotypes. It might be more accurate to say mechanistic, scientistic, or evolutionary-biologic explanations of my experiences simply do not reference enough (important) pieces of my puzzle interior to have satisfactory explanatory power. I think such symbols hold more sway with people who already have frameworks of predominantly similar kinds, i.e. scientistic, evolutionary, materialist; of course I don’t think such frameworks are wrong, they're just different.

My framework, and consequently my symbols, are a bit more experiential, and this is what I mean when I say I am an experientialist; the symbols that work for me are ones that focus, refine and describe my conscious experience. Not that more materialistic symbols and experiential symbols can't coexist; for example I know my sexuality is affected by my evolutionary heritage but I only allow such a fact inform my decisions about sexuality, and I try not to let my biology rule my decision making process. Indeed, I would say everyone reconciles these and more seemingly different symbols in their mental framework, with the natural caveat that different people do this differently at different points in their mental frameworks.

Thus I arrive at passion and desire as wanting completing piece(s) of our interior framework picture, and yet another reason why I am 'passion positive'. While mental frameworks are far from infallible they do help us organize our interior puzzle piece space, and it is by such organizing frameworks we perceive an absence of some (interior puzzle) piece, and we begin to desire. ('Absence makes the heart grow fonder.') Yet curiously, just as we might notice a hole in a fabric more than we notice the fabric, we tend to notice absence (and it's corresponding desire) more than the fabric, or the pieces of fabric, from which it arises.

So, I asked whence cometh the meaning and now I believe a fair answer is dynamic: that meaning arises from the relationship between ourselves, our interior mental spaces (our interior puzzle pieces) and (the organizing authority of) our mental frameworks. Our desires and passions may be negative indicators of what we believe is missing and absent on our interior, but they are also positive searches for experiential meaning and significance in symbols compatible with our current interior framework; we all want meaning in symbols we can understand.