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[Xmca-l] Re: Do adults play?

How about symbolic play?  Imaginary and imperceivable jiggling atoms stand
in for what you can feel (hot/cold).

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--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
>>
>>
>>


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