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I think the ontology goes more like this.

Meaning is the metadata people derive from experience. It's always there, but it's representation becomes significant when people communicate.

Money is an efficient representation of a promise, which is a special kind of communication between people.

Money is the embodiment of a specific kind of meaning.



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