Book Draft: “Making Good Decisions” – Volume 2 – Part II – Glossary Entry: James Carse
Readers can scan the following summary if they do not have the time to read the two-page pdf linked below.
Book Draft: “Making Good Decisions” - Volume 2: Part II – Glossary Entry: James Carse - To paraphrase from Carse’s own blog notes, during a faculty, cross-departmental seminar on Game Theory where he represented the point of view of Philosophy, Carse’s mind drifted to the nature of play behind the otherwise incomprehensible quantifications in the absence of training in advanced mathematics, such that “… Game Theory has to do with winning conflicts, or minimizing losses when winning was impossible”, but what is the story with …. play that saw no value in winning, or even play that actively avoided winning?” [The Infinite Game]. These questions led him to write “Finite and Infinite Games”. His focus on individuality shines through as one holds his books together. Each book shows individuality to the point of not seeming to belong to the same author. How can you bring back to the same author (i) a book that applies Game Theory to Religion [Finite and Infinite Games], with (ii) a book that writes a Gospel [The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple], (iii) a book that seems to negates its premise [The Religious Case Against Belief], and (iv) a book that tells a graphic murder mystery [PhDeath]? Using the titles of the chapters of “Finite & Infinite Games” to structure the connections, Carse relates to other authors in this Glossary, including: Arendt, Boyd, Cipolla, Garrett, Gigerenzer, Korzybski, Llinas, McLuhan, and many others linked to specific Programs & Repair Programs. Carse gave us a metric for making good decisions: Growth to horizons beyond finite boundaries.
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