April 21st, 2020

Thread re Finite & Infinite Games

• April 21st, 2020
  • Just finished Finite & Infinite Games by James P. Carse
    
    Figured I'd write a thread! The book is remarkably well-summarized by the blurb, which is comprised of quotes from the book.
  • "There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play."
    
    "The rules of a finite game may not change; the rules of an ∞ game must change."
  • Oddly somehow @callumflack's tweet wasn't what got me to pick up the book🤔
    
    But I totally agree. Inasmuch as finite player & infinite player are ways of being, they map quite closely & beautifully onto what seems to be going on with the brain hemispheres.
    twitter.com/callumflack/status/1200801403683262465
  • 13: "To account for the large gap between the actual freedom of finite players to step off the field of play at any time and the experienced necessity to stay at the struggle, we can say that as finite players we somehow veil this freedom from ourselves."