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=Description= | |||
What: Using conway's game of Life to write about my views on M. Heidegger's "The Thing". Conway's Game of life proposedly simulates cellular life, 'chaos', according to 4 simple rules. It is one of the pioneering applications of evolutionary algorithms. | |||
How: As I write the simulation is static, and when I press play what I've written interacts with the rest of the environment, like Archimedes writing in the sand. The first try we more similar to the latter where I let my thoughts fly while playing with the game. | |||
Why: I found the media object to be a so-called anti-heideggerian thing. The media object, in this case, simulates life and death according to what we perceive as life. By simulating life we objectify it to a greater degree: first, from the perspective of the object doing the simulating, and second, according to the form we have set for the simulation. | |||
=Video recordings= | |||
==conwaytry1 with mouse-writing== | |||
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vGa4uBFaD_Y | |||
==test2 with written transcript while writing== | |||
[https://youtu.be/AKmhDSiY3K4] | |||
=References= | |||
M. Heidegger, The Thing | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life|Conway's Game of Life] | |||
Revision as of 16:24, 19 April 2015
Description
What: Using conway's game of Life to write about my views on M. Heidegger's "The Thing". Conway's Game of life proposedly simulates cellular life, 'chaos', according to 4 simple rules. It is one of the pioneering applications of evolutionary algorithms. How: As I write the simulation is static, and when I press play what I've written interacts with the rest of the environment, like Archimedes writing in the sand. The first try we more similar to the latter where I let my thoughts fly while playing with the game. Why: I found the media object to be a so-called anti-heideggerian thing. The media object, in this case, simulates life and death according to what we perceive as life. By simulating life we objectify it to a greater degree: first, from the perspective of the object doing the simulating, and second, according to the form we have set for the simulation.
Video recordings
conwaytry1 with mouse-writing
https://www.youtube.com/embed/vGa4uBFaD_Y
test2 with written transcript while writing
References
M. Heidegger, The Thing Game of Life