Glass Plate Game of 12 June 2004

GlassPlateGame played at the house of Timothy Higgins in Mill Creek, Washington.

Move #	Colour	Idea Card	Icon	Status	Player	Comment
1	orange	struggle		# (new chain)	Dunbar Aitkens	n/a
2	orange	joy		P (permitted)	Dunbar Aitkens	Sometimes you experience more joy when you achieve something if you had to struggle for it than if you achieved it easily.
3	orange	metamorphosis		P (permitted)	Kisa_Griffin?	The process of struggle itself can be worthwhile.
4	orange	emotional manipulation		P (permitted)	???	???
5	orange	society as active/passive hierarchy		P (permitted)	Dunbar Aitkens	Once you set a revolution in action, how do you stop the vicious people needed to fight it from taking over afterward?
6	orange	art vs. nature		P (permitted)	Ron_Hale-Evans?	The image one has of the future (of a revolution, or anything else) is an abstraction and often does not match the reality.
7	orange	need not to judge		P (permitted)	Kisa_Griffin?	But- we don't need to judge outcomes so harshly. It may be that whatever happens is good.
8	orange	syntax		O (okayed)	???	???
9	green	anthropomorphism		# (new chain)	Kisa_Griffin?	People project human experiences onto the actions of animals, but we have no way of really knowing if they're thinking what we think they're thinking.
10	green	ambivalence		O (okayed)	???	Nonhuman nonverbal language is ambiguous.
11	green	helplessness		O (okayed)	Ron_Hale-Evans?	Even though you cannot always know what nonhuman nonverbal language means, there are some near-universals, such as suffering, that you can usually deduce.
12	green	species specific norms		O (okayed)	LionKimbro	Every animal species has its own nonverbal language. They don't try to mimic each other's ways of doing things.
13	green	coding		O (okayed)	LionKimbro	It is possible to translate (encode) the symbols of the language of one species into the language of another species.
14	green	syntax		O (okayed)	LionKimbro	Perhaps there is a universal grammar of non-verbal communications.
15	green	intuition		P (permitted)	???	???
16	green	symbolic handles	???	P (permitted)	LionKimbro	The conscious thoughts in our heads are symbolic handles that come from thought occuring on an unconscious level. The unconscious processing is the main processing- the conscious thoughts may be more of an after-effect.
17	green	gestalt		P (permitted)	???	The seperation between the conscious emmanations and the unconscious ("unrepresented") thoughts is likely that "one bleeds over into the other"- on the surface we can distinguish, but looked at in detail, it becomes hard to distinguish.
18	green	art vs. nature		P (permitted)	???	???
19	red	syntax		# (new chain)	???	n/a
20	red	hidden potential		O (okayed)	Ron_Hale-Evans?	The use of constraints in art (syntax) liberates the hidden potential in an artform. Compare the OuLiPo?.
21	???	freedom		???	Kisa_Griffin?	???
22	red	myth		O (okayed)	LionKimbro	The idea that the realms of experience are a canvas, and that freedom and constrain pop out of that canvas- is a myth. (Maybe true, maybe false, but it's a guiding myth.)
23	red	nature tending toward perfection		O (okayed)	Ron_Hale-Evans?	Extending the myth, there is an organising principle that generates order out of disorder and the Universe out of random bits. Compare Permutation City by Greg Egan.
24	red	recursion		P (permitted)	John_Braley?	According to the myth discussed, humans create mathematics, and mathematics creates the universe, which contains humans. (The card "return" was used for the concept "recursion" to end the game.)

Discussion

According to the photos I took of the board, somewhere in the Orange chain near the beginning of the game, someone played the "emotional manipulation" card:

IIRC, this was between "society as active/passive hierarchy" and "art vs. nature", around Turn 5, but I can't see how to fit it in. Dunbar? Anyone?

Also, the graphic for "symbolic handles" does not seem to be readily available online.

-- Ron_Hale-Evans? [[DateTime?(2004-06-20T09:20:27Z)]]

I just realised there was no Turn 4 listed, and that this was where "emotional manipulation" went. Dunbar, was this Permitted, or Okayed?

-- Ron_Hale-Evans? [[DateTime?(2004-06-20T17:19:20Z)]]