I haven't really been that interested in game theory and can get
bored with games but recently I came across one that can be fun
(and sometimes annoying) and may connect or be used with some of
the prose poem discussions, if you so wish...
The ideal game where there are no rules to start with and you make up
the rules as you go along and there are no winners and losers. The logic
is all there and it can be recycled as a fiction game and this is a
rigorous and difficult game.
First, once you start the game without rules you are compelled to invent
or makeup rules since the game can't proceed without these rules.
Second, you can't leave the game even to start another game since that
would require a despotic move which is prohibited since there are no
rules to begin with. (Despotic being absolute rule, of course, and hence
the only possible despot is the game itself and hence there can only be
one game.)
You could begin this field of play by clearing away distinctions to have
a now clear field to play on and once this is done you are put in a
position in the game where you either need to make up new distinctions,
for example, or otherwise something else which requires also inventing
other rules and as this process continues other rules become otherwise
other and so forth until you look like you are tied up in all sorts of
paradox and contradiction which require solutions and escape routes
since to leave the game is not permitted by the game's founding
despotism and there are no winners or losers so you can't get tied up in
contradictions and simply surrender as a loser and are thus forced into
finding an escape.
The forces in this game are active forces and one way out of being tied
up is passive synthesis and becoming otherwise other. I played this game
with Leibniz who has God playing chess with the World, God choosing the
best of all possible moves, and my computer became God playing chess and
all the computers on the internet started playing chess and became God
and since there is no God in cyberspace there were no computers in
cyberspace. Then I logged in as a different user on my computer and
became a daemon and killed the process which was running the chess
program and hence killed God and this killed myself but being killed did
not allow me to leave the game and the death card in the Tarot pack is
turned over with a scaffold for the hanged man and there are no reactive
forces and resentiment and revenge which can survive in this game without
being annihilated and overcome by active forces...
Nietzsche invented this game...
(always suspected he was a bit of an anarchrist.)
best wishes
Chris Jones.
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