This was threatened awhile back, and with Bob and Patty and Joe and Peter's visit, I learned that there are now picture searches available for the Web. Therefore, Pictures at an Exposition seems to have been outdated through technology. I was also re-inspired by Joe and Peter's love of games that I felt it was time to start
The Niels Bohr And Martin Heidegger Methods of Ordering and Surveying Human Experience Game, or
The Dasein Methods of Ordering Game for short.
I had planned on making a video with sound track for each game, but let's just put this first one on the train to Poughkeepsie and see who salutes it.
Please hum, whistle, or sing the theme song and give any answers you come up with in the comments.
Three of these things belong together
Three of these things are kind of the same
Can you guess which one of these doesn't belong here?
Now it's time to play our game (time to play our game).
5 comments:
Something must happen to for us to answer the question. In the abstract, they are all equally different and equally the same. But to find out which one doesn't belong, you'd have to introduce a robot who is desperate to make connection to a living thing. Or someone who can't see the art exhibit without a visitor's pass. Or a member of the Red T-shirt Society.
I like your style.
The purpose of the game is fun, and fundamentally, it is just an imaginative version of the Sesame Street game. However, I really, really like how Myk focused on the 'Dasein' part of the game (as he did in the original Sesame St. post).
For example, as Myk details, someone enters this four element world looking to enter an art exhibition. The 'method of ordering' becomes obvious. Three of the items can not get you in, one can. Incidentally, this was not an ordering I had in mind, but that is inconsequential. It's what the art lover had in mind.
So, as part of the fun, I encourage others to take Myk's example and answer by introducing the character or situation which orders the system. I wasn't expecting Myk to do that, but it does add to the game.
By the way, there are still 2 more 'orderings' which I intentionally put in. Who knows how many others your imagination can come up with?
I guess I should add that, yes, there are 4 trivial solutions of someone coming in looking for a rose, a shirt, a bottle, or a visitor's pass. Let's concentrate on more general groupings where 3 of the items satisfy something more basic than they are NOT the fourth item.
Any more orderings?
To summarize:
1. Someone feeling blue orders the three blue items with the red shirt as the exception. (Myk)
2. A robot orders non-living items and selects the rose. (Myk)
3. What do the bottle, rose, and shirt have in common?
4. What do the rose, shirt, and visitor ID have in common?
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