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How about symbolic play? Imaginary and imperceivable jiggling atoms stand in for what you can feel (hot/cold). --- William Barowy, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Lesley University 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790 Desktop: http://bill.barowy.net/ Mobile: http://bill.barowy.net/m/ ³I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.² --Pablo Picasso On 10/21/13 2:34 PM, "Huw Lloyd" <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com> wrote: >On 21 October 2013 14:28, Barowy, William <barowy@lesley.edu> wrote: > >> Feynman played: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pYRn5j7oI >> >> >> >It's not clear (from the video) whether the anthropomorphising is rather a >rhetorical expression of his own personal joy in the task. > >But, personally, I think that is beside the point. It is the plasticity >of >play that is (for me) more interesting, and the effortful thinking he >refers to is theorised (e.g. Baldwin) to be the application of this >plasticity to objective circumstances. > >Huw > > > >> --- >> William Barowy, Ph. D. >> Associate Professor, >> Lesley University >> 29 Everett Street, >> Cambridge, MA 02138-2790 >> Desktop: http://bill.barowy.net/ >> Mobile: http://bill.barowy.net/m/ >> >> "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how >> to do it." >> --Pablo Picasso >> >> >> Status: O