Slides from @OmirosV's #GameThink talk at the University of Glasgow, 6th February 2015 http://game-think.eventbrite.co.uk/

1. Towards a Broader
Understanding of ‘Play’
Omiros Vazos

2. “In my mind having created the
Gods we can turn into them.”
Alan Harrington

3. “What is most distinctively human about us is our relationship with artifice. […]
Human life as we know it assumes the presence of artifice - objects we have
made ourselves, without which life would either have no meaning or be physically
impossible. Not only did we make these necessary objects but, within a
framework of some 2 or 3 million years, the objects have physically and mentally
shaped us. Without them or their incursion into our lives, our heads would be a
different size, our body type would be different, we wouldn’t be living in houses.
There would be no houses.”
Timothy Taylor

6. “[…] the complex reciprocal dance in which the brain tailors its activity to
a technological and sociocultural environment - in concert with other
brains - it simultaneously alters and amends. Human intelligence owes
just about everything to this looping process of mutual accommodation.”
Andy Clark

9. Thank you!