Philosophy Wire: Computers. Poker. Calculations. A-noisia.

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-02-18]: Computers trying to calculate a game to the end. Computers the best undeafeatable players in poker. [1] So? We are unique because we can love without calculating. We are who we are because we can Exist without calculating. Let the machine do the math. What is the point if it cannot feel what the math is for? Lose in poker. And don't ask why. The deck is already shuffled. Just enjoy the game. Think again. You have not even drawn a card. Everything is One. It never was any other way. Look at the deck. It is closed. Inside its box. Your hands empty. Ace of spades.

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Philosophy Wire: Playing games. Feeling one...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-12-23]: Playing computer games can bring two players' emotional responses and brain activity into unison, researchers in Finland say. [1] If a simple computer game can do that, imagine what other activities could do. Let's say activities like... life! Close your eyes and try to live. Alone. With others. Inside the grid of the cosmos we should all feel One...

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Philosophy Wire: New Elite, old Elite…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-11-06]: The creators of the classical computer game Elite are seeking funds to create a revamped Elite game for the modern gamers [source: BBC News]. Too bad that anything good needs money to be developed. Or… now that I think again, maybe this is not true. Why not go to my still-perfectly-working Commodore and try the game NOW? Maybe if we all did not care about money, we could really do quality work with zero cost…

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Philosophy Wire: Massacre in Warcraft. Real story?

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-10-08]: Hackers have massacred all the virtual characters in some of online adventure game World of Warcraft's major cities. They appear to have created a character able to destroy those of other players and those controlled by the game. Piles of dead virtual characters filled the hills of the virtual world. [source: BBC News] When the lives of people are becoming more and more virtual, a death in the Internet is more like a real death…

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