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 MIND 293 - Play as a Route to Insight, etc.
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Chris Wheeler
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Posted - May 07 2007 :  2:14:21 PM  Show Profile
So for my final paper, I wrote about how play is subjective and different to everyone. Then I remembered one of the topics that came up at the beginning of the semester: how Cows and Horses are different.

Then I came to the conclusion that we all know how to play. Since play is subjective, we all do it differently, but we will all have memories of playing, however we define it. Likewise, we all know that a Cow is not a Horse and vice versa. We know these things, even if we cannot articulate them properly.

So why do we? Does this help us come to a deeper play? An insight? Does all this talk kill the play sprit more than anything else? Why do we need to know?

I'm not trying to start a riot or anything, but what are your thoughts?

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Patti Haight
Fledgling

13 Posts
Posted - May 08 2007 :  1:16:45 PM  Show Profile
I think that as a whole society tries to define what a cow is, what a house is, and what play is. We want things to be spelled out and fit into a nice little package, and when they don’t, we try to cram then into a box. I think that trying to define it does take away from play, and no one definition can work for all play, yet we try to make it work. I agree that we all know what play is even if we can't articulate it.

Patti

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Kit Peterson
Fledgling

14 Posts
Posted - May 08 2007 :  2:19:09 PM  Show Profile
I think this dovetails nicely with my view that humans are such complex creatures that in order for us to understand something we must make it complex even if it isn’t. I think that there are some things that just come naturally to people, and different things come naturally to different people.

Acting is a great example of this. Some people are just born actors while others need a lot of training. Those who need the training, however, have to work very hard at acting, and take it apart piece by piece in order to understand it, then put it all back togeather in order to produce a good performance. Does this mean that the trained actors are then having a deeper insight than those who are naturally born to it? Absolutely not! In fact those who have talent are doing the same things the trained actors are; they just don't need to spend as much time on each piece. I would say that they have a better insight into acting, because it is simpler for them. I think that the more one thinks about something, the more one loses track of what one was originally trying to figure out, the harder it gets to find the answer, and the more complex things get.

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Tina Golovanoff
Fledgling

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Posted - May 10 2007 :  09:25:46 AM  Show Profile
People can feel pretty worthless if they can't or don't define something
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