26 May 2004 | Draft
Varieties of Games
and their role as memetic containers
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Annex to Channelling Awareness through Patterns
Games as representational systems
Mandala (symbolism, construction)
Football (sport)
Monopoly (economics)
3D chess (strategy)
Labyrinth (psychological journey)
Ritual
Kaleidoscopy
Organization (mgtgames)
Situation room (military gaming)
Mala (religion)
Vehcicle navigation
D and D
Wirestrut (symbolic)
Arial (radio, electro)
Chladni (physics)
Abacus (accounting)
Musical instrument
Game of life
Other religious symbols
Memetic complexes
Devices
- Ler wire frame computer
- Abacus -- changing rules
- Organ -- changing associations
- Chladni patterns -- tuning
- Games -- Damanhur
- Array / Arial / Antenna
- Relationship games (any organization, D and D, etc)
- Glass Bead: things as metaphors
- 3D chess
- "Go" configuration
- Republic
- Situation room
- Control room
- Mala beads
- Raymond Lull
- Poetry "devices"
- game map papers
- reordered paper database
Challenge of attaching meaning
- how to project onto fra es (elements)
- how it appears prior to project -- success
- like unknown town -- bitty experience
Why / Whether
- how one relates to instrument
- how it carries meaning / Identity
- see: computer article projection / metaphor
- play music / composer
- graphics
- interactive
- communicate
Pickpocket gang -- play
Equivalent games -- politics
Cookie cutter understanding of human identity
Cookie cutter pattern to cut up reality in ways that enable the complexity of action for which we are competent
- systems diagram
- ecosystem
Multi-dimensional
- explicating somethings
- implicating others
How energy flows in these patterns
For Tim Rohrer (Metaphors we compute by: bringing magic into interface design, 1995):
When Wittgenstein, in the most famous passage of his Philosophical Investigations, asks us to think of how games form a category based not on shared objective properties but on family resemblances, he specifically asks us to imagine "proceedings of games." It is only by imagining games in and through time that we begin to see that no single criteria defines the category, but instead that the category is made up of members who share a complex web of similarities and differences. By evoking a pattern of feelings consistent with our bodily experience, the user's imagination is stimulated to investigate how the world--or the Macintosh desktop--is a complex web of similarities and differences. Zooming is an excellent example of one of the patterns of feeling the philosopher Mark Johnson calls image schemas. In The Body in the Mind, Mark Johnson defines an image schema as a recurrent motor or visual pattern common to the activities of bodily experience. Another example of an image schema is the IN-OUT (container) image schema. We regularly experience a number of events as containers: In the morning we wake up out of a deep sleep, drag ourselves out of bed and into the bathroom. Later that morning we might open up the newspaper and become lost in an article.
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