I Intuit Therefore I am
From the general: Is it possible to understand something without knowing it?
To the specific: Is it possible to come up with the idea of a table without knowing what a table is in the first place?
Early man constructed a table because a stable and customizable platform was necessary to preform tasks, but did they know it was a table? They probably labeled it as a word or series of sounds and used it often when they needed a work station to hold building materiels or as a place to store food. The idea of a table is fairly simple, but what if we did not know what it actually was?
Exercise:
What is a table?
A table is a platform which consists of specific predetermined dementions and has the necessary number of legs to remain stable.
What isn't a table?
A table isn't a fish.
A table isn't water.
A table isn't sand.
A table isn't a banana.
A table isn't a donkey.
A table isn't a cloud.
A table isn't happiness.
A table isn't a very difficult process. (But this is.)
We might be able to identify the aspects of a table inversly to come up with it's idea, but it is a very long and drawn out process. Still, this lends itself to the idea of how to understand the Soul. We can describe aspects of a Soul using our intuition and it's proposed opperations and even define it, but what is a Soul? We have no real terms in which to describe it in any other way than it's functions. Does it hang over our head? Is it a repository of some kind? Is it an orb that is kept by God's belt like a sack of marbles? By eliminating everythign a Soul isn't we might finally be able to understand what it is. Lending this idea to gaming (since this is a gaming Blog, I guess I must talk about gaming,) if we take a look at every type of game made, would it be possible to develop something that is new and unique? Not saying that it might be enjoyable or profitable, but something that is not the same general type of game that we usually play? Wouldn't that be fun?
C.G.M.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates
To the specific: Is it possible to come up with the idea of a table without knowing what a table is in the first place?
Early man constructed a table because a stable and customizable platform was necessary to preform tasks, but did they know it was a table? They probably labeled it as a word or series of sounds and used it often when they needed a work station to hold building materiels or as a place to store food. The idea of a table is fairly simple, but what if we did not know what it actually was?
Exercise:
What is a table?
A table is a platform which consists of specific predetermined dementions and has the necessary number of legs to remain stable.
What isn't a table?
A table isn't a fish.
A table isn't water.
A table isn't sand.
A table isn't a banana.
A table isn't a donkey.
A table isn't a cloud.
A table isn't happiness.
A table isn't a very difficult process. (But this is.)
We might be able to identify the aspects of a table inversly to come up with it's idea, but it is a very long and drawn out process. Still, this lends itself to the idea of how to understand the Soul. We can describe aspects of a Soul using our intuition and it's proposed opperations and even define it, but what is a Soul? We have no real terms in which to describe it in any other way than it's functions. Does it hang over our head? Is it a repository of some kind? Is it an orb that is kept by God's belt like a sack of marbles? By eliminating everythign a Soul isn't we might finally be able to understand what it is. Lending this idea to gaming (since this is a gaming Blog, I guess I must talk about gaming,) if we take a look at every type of game made, would it be possible to develop something that is new and unique? Not saying that it might be enjoyable or profitable, but something that is not the same general type of game that we usually play? Wouldn't that be fun?
C.G.M.
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates
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