When you ask the question of "What is this?" or "What does this or that thing mean?" one way to conceptualize that kind of inquiry is to see it as a process of taking in the various streams of experiences, memories, impressions, accepted facts, interests, and even other ideas, and then synthesizing and processing them within oneself, re-assembling them into a new coherent whole, in accordance with one's character and one's knowledge and perceptions.
To tilt the mirror to the appropriate angle and reveal to you the hall of mirrors within, you could say that this very exercise represents the phenomenon that I'm talking about: my personal re-assembly of the meaning of the concept of meaning, so to speak.
But there is more to it of course. Individuals don't simply emerge as meaning-assembling and transmitting islands, they emerge out of a spatial and temporal field of matter and energy, in relation to the individuals that birthed and raised and formed them in the context of that field in motion through time. And people typically want to be read and understood in some way, and contribute to their communities and societies, however idiosyncratic and visionary their works are, so that communication is an important part of the process, or a harmonization of existing knowledge bases and languages with that of the novel creation, while "getting it right" so to speak. Meaning relating to being.
Even the more idiosyncratic weirdos that are perceived as unintelligible to the mainstream, or at least "ahead of their time," are assembling their meaning out of existing languages and concepts that are held in some sort of esteem, however esoteric, and which are favored by the assemblers in question, which can be made out in the novel assemblies, however "new" and "original" they may appear.
So meaning is not just a fixed thing - though we do endeavor to fix it as such - but a constant flow of moments of production and their artifacts within that which is in existence.
