Week 8 - Lecture

So this week there was no lecture, but don't get your hopes up, I still have to post from the lecture notes.

Plato proposed, that our senses can be lied to. For instance, when you walk into a dark cave, you are blinded. Likewise, once your eyes have adjusted to the darkness, when you walk back outside, you are blinded again. Gibson stated that in our modern era, we don't have that blindness. For some reason we trust our senses.

We are also perhaps programmed for warfare. Nearly everything we see is based on warfare. Think about action movies, you cannot name a single action movie that doesn't involve guns or warfare. Board games for instance are the same. Take chess and checkers for example, they promote warfare. Cheat promotes political deception. Computer games are all based on war, or fighting. Many are based on a historical period, for instance, Call of Duty, runs through WWI, WWII and Afghanistan. Are we programmed to accept war?

When I googled board games, the first game to pop up was Monopoly, a 'WORLD DOMINATION' game.

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