All Entries Tagged With: "James Carse"

Finite and Infinite Games

Sue Smalley applies James Carse’s uber-intellectual and way cool game theory to this election on Huffington Post.

“A finite player is one who plays the game to win or lose and sees it as having a beginning and an end; an infinite player is one who tries to keep the game going with the objective of engaging as many players in it as possible.”

Guess who’s the infinite player?

You Can’t Handle the Truth - Sue Smalley

James Carse in his new book, The Religious Case against Belief, writes of various types of ignorance differing in the degree of effort present with each. As the flip side of ignorance is awareness, it also comes with various shades of effort. It does take effort to direct my eyesight inward and see the 1000+ regions of mind (good and evil) and to realize that perhaps the greatest purpose in in life is the discovery process.