[Xmca-l] Re: Do adults play?

[Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>]

Oh, another interesting point is the "as if" quality of play which carries
over into social relations, e.g. the liberal regard of others as if we are
all equal.

Huw


On 21 October 2013 19:34, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 21 October 2013 14:28, Barowy, William <barowy@lesley.edu> wrote:
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>> Feynman played:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pYRn5j7oI
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> It's not clear (from the video) whether the anthropomorphising is rather a
> rhetorical expression of his own personal joy in the task.
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> 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.
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> Huw
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>> to do it."
>> --Pablo Picasso
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