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  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency (Season 1, Episode 169)
  • Podcast Episode | 84 min | Talk-Show

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

C. Thi Nguyen on Games, Art, Values, and Agency (Season 1, Episode 169)
Podcast Episode | 84 min | Talk-Show
Games are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just so we can struggle to achieve them. (And in some games, like Twister, the fun is in losing, even though ...See moreGames are everywhere, but why exactly do we play them? It seems counterintuitive, to artificially invent goals and obstacles just so we can struggle to achieve them. (And in some games, like Twister, the fun is in losing, even though you're supposed to try to win.) C. Thi Nguyen is a philosopher who has developed a theory of games as an art form whose medium is agency. Within each game, we have defined goals, powers, and choices, and by playing different games we can experiment with different forms of agency. A dark side of this idea is to be found in "gamification" - turning ordinary-life activities into a game. Games give us clarity of values, and that clarity can be seductive but misleading, leading people to turn to conspiracy theories about the real world. See less
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