Wow. Either staring at flat screens is _fun_ for you people, or you need to learn to take the weekend off. 8^)
On 02/15/2015 04:51 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote: > On Feb 15, 2015, at 4:05 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> What represents a responsible, enlightened balance between Faber, Sapiens >> and Ludens ? > > This is an excellent question. Thanks, Steve. > First, do you truly think it is possible or useful to have a balance between > Faber, Sapiens, and Ludens? > Then what would it be? > My vote would be for a Taoist approach, responding to the needs of the moment > with the appropriate way of being. Of all the cool things said, this is the only thing I might have something useful to say about ... though it amounts to a "me too". I think you've hit it right, Tory. Steve's setup is a _false_ trichotomy ... (? Hm, maybe it's better to say the axiom of choice is fake ... or at least an oversimplified discretization?) Invoking the Tao is the right response, as it's both indivisible and infinitely differentiable. The real answer is that to play is to make is to understand (and its permutations -- to make is to understand is to play...). I think the artificial classifications we impose are more about how we learned to talk over our ontogeny than it is a true classification. Various languages are more natural for various tasks. And while it can be useful to use a language in which an act/concept is difficult to express (e.g. describing music from an engineering perspective), it is less common for a reason (or set of reasons), namely the "natural" language for some act/concept usually is terse, condensed. So, e.g. when a player talks to another player, they tend to speak a language that's dense and compressed, allowing them to communicate more, faster. Of course, I tend toward the opposite. I enjoy describing things in unnatural languages, which makes me an enemy of all 3 types. p.s. That also means, that I am maximally offensive to Nick ... All Dionysians should claim their works are Apollonian and vice versa ... it's good to use unnatural languages. -- ⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella Kiss the sun to be alive ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
