an out of order eighth approach: mind as inquiry

an out of order eighth approach: mind as inquiryThe odd and wonderful thing about play stems from attempts to figure out why we play. Every attempt so far fails to show that any assumption about play holds true. Our bias to favor a deeper value for playful behavior intuitively makes sense, but science doesn’t support any hypothesis we propose. Our problem stems from the need to make sense of something that in its very nature remains senseless. It remains senseless but not unimportant. I hope that after this exploration play still seems senseless, but that that senselessness comes to represent something cherished, however impractical or insubstantial. We can view senseless as without direction, because in this realm of play the value of direction yields to the value of whatever happens in each moment.