Games can be used as tools for science and society by modeling complex systems and dynamics. They allow exploration of possibilities through repetition and practice in safe environments. Different types of games develop different skills, from basic abilities to higher-order strategic and social intelligence. By representing ideas as interactive systems, games can help build understanding of topics from weapons development to military planning on various scales of analysis.

1. Games as Tools for Science and Society -Will Wright

2. Senet 3500BC

6. Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.

11. General Problem Solving Realistic Abstract Minor Field Exercises Major Field Exercises Map Exercises Computer Simulations War Games Analytical Models Expensive Cheap

13. Weapons Development Campaign Planning Battle Planning Logistics Individual Skills

14. Thinking - Intelligence

15. Repetition Practice Mastery Basic Skills Deconstruction Emergence Strategy Systemic Social Empathy Leadership Perception Awareness Filtering Subconscious Associative Intuition Holistic

16. Repetition Practice Mastery Basic Skills Deconstruction Emergence Strategy Systemic Social Empathy Leadership Perception Awareness Filtering Subconscious Associative Intuition Holistic

18. PREFACE CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION Section I. BACKGROUND 1-1. NATURE OF LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT 1-2. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS 1-3. MILITARY ROLE IN LOW-INTENSITY CONFLICT Section II. IMPERATIVES 1-4. POLITICAL DOMINANCE 1-5. UNITY OF EFFORT 1-6. ADAPTABILITY 1-7. LEGITIMACY 1-8. PERSEVERANCE Section III. OPERATIONAL CATEGORIES 1-9. SUPPORT FOR INSURGENCY AND COUNTERINSURGENCY 1-10. COMBATTING TERRORISM 1-11. PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS 1-12. PEACETIME CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS Section IV. LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES 1-13. FORCE PROTECTION 1-14. FORCE SUSTAINMENT 1-15. DISCIPLINE MAINTENANCE 1-16. FRATRICIDE PREVENTION CHAPTER 2. SUPPORT FOR INSURGENCY AND COUNTERINSURGENCY Section I. THE NATURE OF INSURGENCY 2-1. GOALS 2-2. ENVIRONMENT 2-3. CHARACTERISTICS 2-4. POPULAR AND LOGISTIC SUPPORT 2-5. GUERRILLA TACTICS 2-6. DEVELOPMENT PHASES Section II. BRIGADE AND BATTALION TASK FORCE IN COUNTERINSURGENCY 2-7. FOREIGN INTERNAL DEFENSE AUGMENTATION FORCE OPERATIONS 2-8. CONDUCT OF TACTICAL OPERATIONS 2-9. PLANNING 2-10. OPERATION PRINCIPLES 2-11. TASK ORGANIZATION Section III. OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS 2-12. PHASE I - LATENT AND INCIPIENT INSURGENCY 2-13. PHASE II - GUERRILLA WARFARE 2-14. PHASE III - WAR OF MOVEMENT

19. Pragmatic approach…

25. -Individual -Group -Peer to Peer

26. Me World

27. models imagination A B C World

28. We build models by abstracting lots of examples

29. Behavior Models – (Predictive) Schema – (Abstractions) Metaphors – (Patterns) Examples – (Data)

30. Light bulb Joke Schema Q: How many members of a particular demographic group does it take to change a light bulb? A: Some finite number. One to change the bulb, and the rest to act in a manner that reinforces the stereotype of that particular group.

31. Classification

33. -Enter restaurant -Be seated -Get menu -Place drink order -Receive drinks -Place food order -Eat food -Receive check -Pay check -Leave Causality

34. Schema gone bad…

35. James Bond

37. Failure Based Learning

38. Professional Apprenticeship

40. TIME Success 10 sec. 10 min. 1 hr. 10 hrs. Failure Patterns in time

41. Marriage Children Success Friendship Romance Parties Family Objects House Efficiency Social - Friends Breakup Social Services Affair Military School Job/Skills Economy Happy Free Time Argument Insult Jealousy Fight Move Interact Demotion Lose Job Repo Man Electrocution Needs Pee Collapse Lonely Starve Basic Control Failure

42. failure

44. others toy experiences Play experience

45. Story toy experiences Play experience Educational Technologies

46. Future Now Past Educational technologies for dealing with time

47. Games

48. Play Games Games are a subset of play

49. Possibility Space

50. Repetition Practice Mastery Basic Skills Deconstruction Emergence Strategy Systemic Social Empathy Leadership Perception Awareness Filtering Subconscious Associative Intuition Holistic

53. possibilities

54. Gameplay Landscape (Sims) Success Social Material Start

57. Real design target

60. Scott Diddams Timmy Physicist - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Toddler (3yrs.old) – Carolina Day School Quantum – Optical interactions Properties of magnetic interaction Comprehensive, Complex & Robust? Physics model Comprehensive World Model

61. Models – build – test - replace

62. Gm m 1 2 F = r 2 Science compression

63. Mental Model Games if ((fdLen = DFANgetfdslen(dfanFileID, 1)) == FAIL) { if (verbose) cout << "There is no file desc annotation."; } else { numFd++; DFANgetfds(dfanFileID, cdesc1, fdLen, 1); while((fdLen = DFANgetfidlen(dfanFileID, 0)) != FAIL) { numFd++; } } // endif desc1 phase space - player perception

64. imagination Play builds models Games test models imagination

65. Structural Models

66. Structure Dynamics

67. Dynamics

68. Systemic Understanding deconstructing…then reconstructing

69. Topologies Nouns Layers Propagation Cybernetics Growth System Dynamics Cellular Automata Grouping Chaos Theory Adaptive Systems Order Network Theory Allocation Mapping Specialization Nesting Networks Agents Dynamics Verbs Paradigms Grammar

70. Topology Propagation Cybernetics Growth System Dynamics Cellular Automata Grouping Chaos Theory Adaptive Systems Order Network Theory Allocation Mapping Specialization Nesting Layers Networks Agents relationships

71. Flexible Rigid Agents Networks Layers

73. Topology Propagation Cybernetics Growth System Dynamics Cellular Automata Grouping Chaos Theory Adaptive Systems Order Network Theory Allocation Mapping Specialization Nesting Layers Networks Agents

74. Layers Networks Propagation Cybernetics Growth System Dynamics Cellular Automata Grouping Chaos Theory Adaptive Systems Order Network Theory Allocation Mapping Specialization Nesting Agents Dynamics topology change through time

75. Propagation Material Information Patterns

76. Growth Structure Quantity State

77. Specialized Similar Grouping

78. Order Linear Branching

79. Allocation Time Material

80. Mapping

81. ?

82. Specialization

83. Nesting

84. TIME 10 sec. 10 min. 1 hr. 10 hrs. Failure Success Patterns in time

85. Layers Networks Propagation Cybernetics Growth System Dynamics Cellular Automata Grouping Chaos Theory Adaptive Systems Order Network Theory Allocation Mapping Specialization Nesting Agents Dynamics topology change through time

86. Layers Networks Propagation Growth Cybernetics System Dynamics Grouping Cellular Automata Chaos Theory Order Adaptive Systems Network Theory Allocation Mapping Specialization Nesting Agents Paradigms Deconstruction - metamodeling

87. Futurism

89. The Nucleon

92. Cybernetics Feedback IN OUT POSITIVE NEGATIVE control theory

94. chained together – analog electronics

95. Analog computation

96. Stock Flow System Dynamics Jay Forrester magnetic-core memory

99. 72

100. Cellular Automata

101. Von Neumann Digital computation – true emergence

102. Value - + Pop. Crime. + Land Value = Crime + Location Population = Land Value + Zoning Crime = Population – Land Value

103. Res. Ind. System Dynamics + Cellular Automata

104. Chaos Theory / Phase Space Phase space

105. Stable System

106. Chaotic System

113. Complex Adaptive Systems

114. Feedback IN OUT Rule System Feedback IN OUT genetic algorithms – neural networks – etc.

115. Adaptive Landscape

117. Network Theory

119. Social Metabolic Infrastructure Financial

120. Power law distribution Graph Width (6 degrees of separation) Graph Connectedness

121. Models , not reality

122. Reality Relativity Theory Quantum Mechanics

123. Cooperation Local Disordered Competition Global Ordered

124. Topologies Layers Networks Propagation Growth Grouping Order Allocation Mapping Specialization Nesting Agents Cybernetics System Dynamics Dynamics Cellular Automata Chaos Theory Adaptive Systems Network Theory Paradigms Local Global Order Disorder Compete Cooperate emmergence

125. Repetition Practice Mastery Basic Skills Deconstruction Emergence Strategy Systemic Social Empathy Leadership Perception Awareness Filtering Subconscious Associative Intuition Holistic

126. Social Intelligence

127. Less about Firepower… More about Social Awareness

128. PSYOPs Not just for specialists…

129. Going from “soft science”…

130. …to data driven.

131. evolution

132. Psychopath Good Samaritan Manic Depressive evolution

135. Griefers

138. Primary landscapes

141. U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Handbook Appendix B - "Social Network Analysis and Other Analytical Tools"

142. -Culture -Ideas -Opinions

143. Awash in information

145. Synthetic Awareness

146. Repetition Practice Mastery Basic Skills Deconstruction Emergence Strategy Systemic Social Empathy Leadership Perception Awareness Filtering Subconscious Associative Intuition Holistic

147. Smart Dust

150. Information Network -Collect -Process -Distribute

151. P1 P1 -Collect P1 P1 P1 -Process -Distribute P1 P1 P1 P1 P1 P1 P1 P1 P1 P1

152. -Collect P2 -Process P2 -Distribute P2 P2 P2 P2 P2 P2 P2

153. -Collect P2 -Process P2 -Distribute P2 P2 P2 P2 P2 P2 P2

154. P3 -Collect -Process -Distribute P3 P3 P3 P3 P3

155. Information Gradient

157. Synthetic Senses

158. Augmented Reality Blended Reality

159. Virtual Reality

167. Wearable Computing 

170. Replacing my instincts

171. Repetition Practice Mastery Basic Skills Deconstruction Emergence Strategy Systemic Social Empathy Leadership Perception Awareness Filtering Subconscious Associative Intuition Holistic

172. Data In (bps) 10,000,000 sight 1,000,000 touch 50 bps 100,000 sound 100,000 smell consciousness 1000 taste

173. Conscious Intelligence / Awareness Pre-conscious Intelligence Intuition

175. Basic Skills Strategy Social Perception Intuition

180. Perspectives are more valuable than solutions

181. Story Systemic Play Visual

182. Tactile / Immersive Historical / Regional Abstractions Toy-like / Systemic Dramatic / Cultural

183. Symbolic Perceptual ? Intuitive

184. weapons development combined forces objectives military campaign force development branch deployment strategic planning operational planning army tactical planning training division logistics tactics advanced skills company basic skills career development assignments duties Scale individual years months weeks days decades Time

185. weapons development Analytical Models combined forces objectives military campaign force development branch deployment Wargaming strategic planning operational planning army Strategy tactical planning training Group Exercises division Social logistics tactics Skills advanced skills Simulations company basic skills career development assignments Perception duties Scale individual years months weeks days decades Time

186. The Future is becoming less predictable 1700 1800 1900 2000 2100

190. I wonder… The End

191. Perceptual

192. Verbs into Nouns

193. Charles Joseph Minard