Philosophical Speculations

Sorry to be the game party pooper here, but all this seems potentially dangerous to me, for the reason you are giving, and even more so because the idea that “the game” should have this or that characteristic, already implicitly gives the game a value that goes beyond its educational value, its val ...

One thing I kept thinking about when watching was: instead of recapitulating the medieval stage of the intellectual soul and its factionizing tendencies (which of course still carry into our time), what if there was a Minecraft experiment that prefigured the late stage consciousness soul in ...

Speaking of this, I'm reminded of a good video that illustrates some of these principles: Thanks for sharing these, Cleric. I have finished part one and feel that I am able to follow along with the explanations pretty well. One thing that immediately struck me was how the ' multilayer perceptron ...

I would like to share a video that follows an online Minecraft event where about 1000 players participate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef568d0CrRY The video is actually a whole movie. It is rather long, and time is a scarce commodity in our age, so I can't really recommend it as something that ...

Thank you all for the feedback! This part was supposed to address the further meditative aspect too, but it all became too long, and I split it into two parts. I hope that I'll be able to post it in the coming week. I'd like to add a tip with respect to these concentration exercises. Performing the ...

Thank you for this condensed inner space stretching walk-through, Cleric. I believe it is a great pedagogical tool, when fleshed out some more, as in the original space stretching essays. Perhaps what could be initially unclear for the modern mind (as I see it from the closeness of my viewpoint to ...

The Game Loop Part 6 Concentration Google Doc version (easier to follow footnotes) Part 1 Mental Pipelines Part 2 Interleaved IO Flows I Part 3 Interleaved IO Flows II Part 4 In Search of the Fundamental Inputs I Part 5 In Search of the Fundamental Inputs II Part 6 Concentration In our attempt to ...

Tonight in 1980 Massimo Scaligero passed away. Here's a short article from the journal «Vie della Tradizione», Vol. IX, N. 33, 1979. Thanks, Federica. As I was reading, I once again felt how prone the modern consciousness is to misunderstand what Imagination implies (I'm not saying this in c ...

As we read the essay, we see the chess animation above and contextually form the corresponding flow of mental pictures. Following the thread, we understand that the animation is meant to evoke the existence of an unusual (for our conscious attention) experience, unfolding as we attempt to have the ...

Thank you, Cleric, for another great installment on the journey. The Chess caricature and animation for our imaginative process was a brilliant stroke on the canvas! Hopefully, readers will heed your consistent cautions and not try to understand these things as some literal mechanisms of our ...