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 MIND 293 - Play as a Route to Insight, etc.
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Patti Haight
Fledgling

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Posted - May 07 2007 :  12:14:03 PM  Show Profile
My last paper was about other scientists who attribute their discoveries—or rather parts of their discoveries—to play. Prior to this class I never thought of play as being a part of everyday life and discovery once you were no longer a child. I now think of play as a big part of the advances that society as a whole has been able to make.

Patti

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Tina Golovanoff
Fledgling

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Posted - May 08 2007 :  1:26:58 PM  Show Profile
Ok, when I first looked at the title of this class, I thought we would be spending our class days at the playground. OK, so not so much. When I read the syllabus, I was thinking how on earth do play, history, and physics ever meet in the same sentence? It’s just not natural! Now that the class is over, I have a better idea, but in my eyes, play will always be what I know it as...lighthearted and entertaining. It all depends on what people are interested in. Can you play in physics?? Oh, yeah. As for history and play: I honestly think people are far more open-minded in terms of play now than they were centuries ago.

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Kit Peterson
Fledgling

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Posted - May 08 2007 :  2:26:28 PM  Show Profile
I think we find play everywhere because in order for humans to function normally, they really can never grow up fully. You know the saying: "never forget your roots." Well, I think it goes far beyond whether you’re Irish or African-American. I think it also goes back to your own roots as a child. In class we talked about how everything is new to children and about how childhood is the age of discovery. That part of us stays with us throughout our adult lives, and I think when we do make new discoveries as adults, though it might not be as often as when we were kids, that childhood sensation overflows and fills us up, and we are playing once more.

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