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 MIND 293 - Play as a Route to Insight, etc.
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Morgan Dacar
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Posted - Apr 14 2007 :  11:19:21 AM  Show Profile
I was going to mention this on Friday, but we ran out of time and I didn’t want to forget about it, so I’ll just put it on here. As we were going through Huizinga’s characteristics of play, I started thinking about the very beginning of the semester when we were trying to define play (and how we struggled with it—well I did anyways). I think all of the characteristics make sense when describing play, but I never would have thought how a concept like play could be so in-depth and precise when it seems so simple. I guess nothing in this world is simple anymore. Even play is complex! Haha!

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Kristina Topolski
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Posted - Apr 30 2007 :  5:31:17 PM  Show Profile
It is funny how play can be discussed in such depth. It does make me wonder, though, if play cannot be simplified. Maybe it is something that can be explained through complex characteristics or by simply "playing." I know that we have spent serious time and effort trying to define this term, but I have found that it really could be explored simply through playing.

I struggled with defining play during the beginning of the class, too. I guess I still struggle with it. It seems to be something that can only be grasped by those who have experienced it. What do you think?

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Kelly Dale
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Posted - May 01 2007 :  1:27:40 PM  Show Profile
Since we have had such a difficult time grasping one definition of play I am starting to believe that play can be unique to each person. Each person plays in a different way and each person considers different things to be play. I don’t know, just a general comment.
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Meagan Birely
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Posted - May 01 2007 :  6:19:17 PM  Show Profile
I agree! I put that in my paper and Trelogan said that that is true for any word. However...I think play is unique in that it is used everyday by almost everybody and we don't even realize the implications of what we are saying. Play has more depth than I ever realized!
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Kelly Dale
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Posted - May 01 2007 :  6:30:33 PM  Show Profile
Seeing as this class is mainly concerned with play, I think that is the most important word to look at right now. I agree that we all play everyday and may not even realize it. I may consider one thing play and I may do it everyday. Whether I consciously think about it when I’m doing it is up in the air, but when I stop to think about it, I consider it play. On the other hand there may be some people who don’t consider it play. It’s all relative.

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Meagan Birely
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Posted - May 01 2007 :  10:34:15 PM  Show Profile
I think that is why we have been having trouble pinpointing an exact definition that everybody can agree on and nobody can refute. It is all relative!

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Kit Peterson
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Posted - May 04 2007 :  2:30:21 PM  Show Profile
Sometimes I wonder if it’s really just the complexity of the human mind that leads us to find so much complexity in everything around us. Since the human mind thinks logically, we have to find logic in a thing in order to understand it, even if it doesn’t have any kind of logic to it at all. Look at Alice in Wonderland. It’s a book of pure nonsense, yet ever since it was published, people have been trying to find the deeper meanings in it and have turned it into a really complex mess. I wonder if the same happens when it comes to the ideas of play.

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