Why do people get so defensive about life being called a game? Because it challenges their choices. They question the choices they have made, and thus they have to be able to convince themselves that they had no choice, or only restricted choices. Because in a game “you” have to play it, and they really haven’t in life? Yes. They have attitudes that have made them neglect elements of the choice making process. People talk about things happening to them and people doing things to them as if they have no choice. Emotional habits that would put them into the… Seek More
On games, there are two sides to games and the existence of games. Game play and game design. Both follow the same logic. And I do have to play others games as well as design my own. This is true. Have to, at least in a sense, as the other game designers are very real agents in the whole reality game. The baseline of games is a level playing field. Interesting point, perhaps. It’s been long studied and experimented with in both psychology and sociology, that even if you level the playing field and equally distribute all resources, the bulk of… Seek More
The phrase of Einstein’s about God playing dice with the universe… Einstein didn’t like it but he was unable to disprove it. He wanted to believe in a world that was neatly ordered according to at least somewhat human sensibilities. He had to believe in the intelligibility of the universe. On the subject of quantum physics, though Einstein didn’t like the science he helped to foster, if he were alive today he would be engrossed in what is being discovered in places like the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. There isn’t any way to prove either way? There may be.… Seek More
