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[watertank]

It is not necessary for infinite Players to be Christians; indeed it is not possible for them to be Christians - seriously. Neither is it possible for them to be Buddhists, or Muslims, or atheists, or New Yorkers - seriously. All such titles can only be playful abstractions, mere performances for the sake of laughter.
Infinite players are not serious actors in any story, but the joyful poets of a story that continues to originate what the cannot finish.

James P. Carse. Finite and Infinite Games. 100.

An amazing book. Makes the difference between finite and infinite so palpable that it becomes impossible to deny the theatricality of everyday rules and titles. All I want to do now is create and live myths.

Occurring before a world, theatrically, a finite game occurs within time. Because it has its boundaries, its beginning and end, within the absolute temporal limits established by a world, time for a finite player runs out; it is used up. It is a diminishing quantity.
A finite game does not have its own time. It exists in a world's time. An audience allows players so much time to win their titles.
For the finite player in us freedom is a function of time. We must have time to be free. 67.

Comments

[runishka.livejournal.com]

О теории игр могу судить только по Вашим постам. Есть в ней что-то подкупающе детское, при все интеллектуальном навороте...:) По моему, в индуизме есть понятие о мире как о большой космической игре.

[watertank.livejournal.com]

Да, в индуизме есть такое понятие.

Эта книжка не по теории игр, а о, скорее, о философии восприятии процессов в мире. Автор говорит, что все происходящее - игры и возможности. Потом он делит игры на конечные и бесконечные, после чего начинается пир духа. :)

[ghostiworld.ru (from livejournal.com)]

Хорошо пишете!