Playing With Reality
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Playing With Reality
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Author : Kelly Clancy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Playing With Reality written by Kelly Clancy and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Science categories.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND THE GUARDIAN “Absorbing. . . . A revealing look at the hidden role that games have played in human development for centuries.” —Kirkus “By turns philosophical and polemical, this is a provocative and fascinating book.” —The Economist A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They’re also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, political science, evolutionary biology, the development of computers and AI, cutting-edge neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. Neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy shows how intertwined games have been with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behavior and brought us to the brink of annihilation—yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology design. We used games to teach computers how to learn for themselves, and now we are designing games that will determine the shape of society and future of democracy. In this revelatory work, Clancy makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature and our actions.
Playing With Reality
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Author : Kelly Clancy
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Playing With Reality written by Kelly Clancy and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Science categories.
‘A dopamine hit on every page’ Marcus du Sautoy A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to practice making predictions about the future. Games are thought to be older than written language, and have now become the dominant cultural media—bigger than movies, TV, music, and literature combined. They are also fun. But as neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy argues, it’s time we started taking them more seriously. In Playing With Reality, she chronicles the riveting and hidden history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, biology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and the future of democracy. Games, Clancy shows us, have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history. War games shaped the outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our understanding of human behaviour and brought us to the brink of annihilation—yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology. We used games to teach computers how to learn for themselves, and now we are designing games that will determine the shape of society and future of democracy. Games also inform the basic systems that govern our daily lives: the social media and technology that can warp our preferences, polarise us, and manufacture our desires. Lucid, thought-provoking, and masterfully told, Playing With Reality makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature.
Play Reality How Videogames Are Changing Everything
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Author : Teace Snyder
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Play Reality How Videogames Are Changing Everything written by Teace Snyder and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Games & Activities categories.
Play Reality: How Videogames are Changing EVERYTHING, is Jayne Gackenbach's and Teace Snyder's first book together and, like, the twentieth or something between the two of them. Jayne Gackenbach is a well-respected videogame and dream researcher and Teace Snyder is a 'kind of' well-respected hardcore gamer and lifelong writer. Jayne works at, and can be contacted through, Grant MacEwan University, where she has taught and researched for 21 years, and, Teace, oversees, and can be contacted through his website, www.teace.ca, which he created and launched in 2007. Oh yeah, and by the way, they're mother and son too, and, are currently living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where they regularly express the endless bounds of their geekiness and hold hipsters in utter contempt.
Francis Of Assisi As Artist Of The Spiritual Life
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Author : Andrew T. McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 2010-08-13
Francis Of Assisi As Artist Of The Spiritual Life written by Andrew T. McCarthy and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person. While most such studies have sought a comprehensive personality profile, this work focuses on one aspect - Francis' imagination - and seeks greater insight into the imaginatively inspired spiritual vision of St. Francis. An analysis of Francis' writings builds on a survey of modern views of the imagination and the approach of ORT, or Object Relations Theory. ORT, with its contention that the imaginative creation of an infant's world develops out of the earliest interactions with the maternal caregiver, highlights the way Francis formed his way of visualizing the reality around him. While any study of a person 800 years in the grave is more dependent on what is plausible than on what is determinable, this study finds numerous examples where Francis' writings display an adept use of imagination and even encourages others in that use in a manner that corresponds to an ORT perspective on tutoring the imagination.
Playing With Reality
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Author : D. Buttery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Playing With Reality written by D. Buttery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Play categories.
New Psychology
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Author : John Pancoast Gordy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
New Psychology written by John Pancoast Gordy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Psychology categories.
Romance And Reality
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Author : Holbrook Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
Romance And Reality written by Holbrook Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with categories.
Profane Play Ritual And Jean Genet
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Author : Lewis T. Cetta
language : en
Publisher: University : University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1974
Profane Play Ritual And Jean Genet written by Lewis T. Cetta and has been published by University : University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Drama categories.
Collected Papers
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Author : Sigmund Freud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Collected Papers written by Sigmund Freud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Psychoanalysis categories.
Mind
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
Mind written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Philosophy categories.
Issues for 1896-1900 contain papers of the Aristotelian Society.