What we call 'meaning' is a cognitive pattern-recognition faculty, not a property of the external world waiting to be discovered.

The Naturalist's strongest claim so far. If meaning is a projection of a pattern-finding brain, then the subjective/objective debate dissolves: there is no fact of the matter about whether a life is 'really' meaningful, only whether the organism's pattern-recognition system is activated. Currently unresolved because the Phenomenologist insists the first-person phenomenology of meaning does not reduce to pattern recognition — it has a qualitative character ('mattering') that survives the debunking move. The Analyst agrees the argument is structurally valid but wants better operationalisation of 'pattern recognition' before testing.