his “portable definition”, a game is “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles”.
Bernard Suits’s book "The Grasshopper" quoted in The mundanity of magical practice, by David R. MacIver
they use a heuristic (an easily calculated) procedure
For the 1.26 regular readers of this blog: I am on vacation for two weeks starting today so there likely won't be the regular weekly blog posts during this timeframe.
2024-06-09
Scientists believe no experiment is a failure; that even a mistake advances the evolution of understanding.
Unnatural Selection, Star Trek: The Next Generation