Game Gene Theory, Second Edition. $11.99 plus shipping and handling. 152 pp
Not only is there no God, there is not even a surrogate purpose for living like a survival
instinct as Freud and Darwin believed.
This is because we cannot see what
choices will guarantee self-preservation - survival will not compute,
we would be frozen in indecision if we had such an instinct.
There must be another way to get around the unpredictability of life and an instinctive
game playing compulsion is just such a way. This instinct allows us not to get so hung up on whether
we are hurting ourselves. We grab a Doritos when we are hungry so we can continue a game.
To get to our games on the other side of the road we barely avoid getting hit by cars as we run through traffic.
Because we don't need to survive, we can push the envelope to the point of self destruction
(in war, extreme sports or even suicide) uncovering
unforceeable values in the process that might help us survive better.
If you observe what elements are normally said to make up a game, there are six required elements: goals,
rules, and play, as well as a need for progress, challenge and endings. Because these game factors are so
widespread and universal they are the trace
evidence of a game-based psychology. They also become the template for further scientific investigations.
1 - Check video introducing the book "Game Gene Theory" at Youtube
2 - Check video "Disproving Darwin in Two Minutes" at Youtube
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport. King Lear, IV,37-38 by Shake-speare
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, "And thus Henchard found
himself again on the precise standing which he had occupied
a quarter of a century before. Externally there was nothing to hinder his making another
start on the upward slope, and by his new lights achieving higher things than his soul in its half
formed state had been able to accomplish. But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods
for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum -- which arranges that wisdom to do
shall come pari passu with the departure of zest for doing -- stood in the way of all that. He had
no wish to make an arena a second time of a world that had become a mere painted scene to him." p.319
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, "...her interest in the spectacle of the strange phenomenon got the better of her fear." p.266
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, "Every trifling emotion that her husband showed as he talked had its reflex on her face and lips, which moved
as little duplictes to his." p.265
"I know it's a game, but its been my life." Amanda Kimmel, Survivor (two time runner up), Final May 11, 2008
CNN reporter to 'Naked Cowboy' in Times Square New York, December 31 2004
"How do you keep from getting cold?"
Naked Cowboy: "I pretend I'm warm and it works."
"...you're working so hard to be somebody special...what I don't see babe, where you go once you've arrived? Where we go
once we've arrived?" Special to Me, Phantom of the Paradise, 1974
"We are entirely made up of bits and pieces...there is as much difference between us and ourselves
as there is between us and other people...we must probe right down inside and find out
what principles make things move...." Michel De Montaigne, On the Inconstancy of Our Actions
"...the life of man is nothing but a sport of folly...". Erasmus, Praise of Folly (116), 1509
Appian on Sulla's dictatorship of Rome, "...he was not afraid of having caused the death of 100,000
young men ... of having killed his personal enemies to the number of ninety senators and
about fifteen consuls ... the bodies of many had been thrown out unburied, but Sulla proclaimed himself
a private citizen .... I believe that sated with war, sated with power, sated with Rome, he
finally fell in love with rural life." Book 1, 104.
Ghost in the Shell 2 - 2004
"If our gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena,
then it must be said that our love is scientific as well."
"It's no use to blame the looking glass if your face is askew
the mirror is not an instrument of enlightenment but of illusion."
"...what are children in the chaos preceding maturity?
They differ profoundly from "humans", but they obviously have
human form. The dolls that little girls mother are not surrogates
for real babies. Little girls are not so much imitating child rearing
as they are experiencing something deeply akin to child rearing.
It is the way to achieve the ancient dream of artificial life.
Descarte didn't differentiate man from machine, animate from inanimate.
He lost his beloved five year old daughter and then named a doll after
her, Francine. He doted on her. At least that's what they say.
"One need not be Caesar in order to understand Caesar."
"The world cannot live at the level of its great men"
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"What the body creates is as much an expression of DNA
as the body itself"
Ghost in the Shell 2 - 2004
"Rob's strategy to quit worked and that just makes me sick. "
miss South Carolina. Amazing race, APRIL 6, 2005
RECAP
"For every one person who likes you you have ten
people who have to criticize you." Avril Lavigne
"...Self-love was her [Nature's] greatest gift. Just let me add that no great deed was ever
performed without my [goddess of stupidity's] prompting and no new art
discovered unless I was responsible." Erasmus, Praise of Folly, 1509
"In 1914 as long as the German people thought they were fighting for ideals, they stood firm; but as soon as they were
told to fight for their daily bread, they preferred to give up the game." Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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