Marc | January 9, 2009
One of the more interesting activities that humans come up with is games (loosely construed). Back in the day, aka before the Methodist onslaught destroyed play as a serious activity in the 17th century, games and play acted as educational and/training events for people. We can see this in activities as varied as cossak (or [...]
Category: COIN, Social Theatre |
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Tags: Creativity, Games, Reality Construction, Valhalla Simulation Games
Marc | August 13, 2008
[Note: I am in the process of putting together a journal article on asymmetric warfare and I will be using the next few posts to help me think abut it.] Competition appears to be an inevitable consequence of our natural (read biological) state. Darwin termed this “natural selection”. But, as with most species, we are [...]
Category: Anthropology, COIN, Epistemology |
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Tags: Asymmetric warfare, Epistemology, Games