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shihonage said:Humans cannot survive without entertainment.
They can. It doesn't make them happy though.
shihonage said:Humans cannot survive without entertainment.
Not to the universe objectively. The human mind creates meaning for itself though, and it's this meaning we are talking about, which should go without saying. Moving on.TripJack said:does anything mean anything at all?
Metro said:Semantics. Video games have always been about entertainment in the grand scheme of things. Whether or not they are challenging is more a difference of degree (of entertainment) versus kind.
Xi said:http://fold.it/portal/
Solve a real scientific problem by haphazardly creating proteins.
Renegen said:Gaming should be more than mindless entertainment.
Metro said:LoPan said:Question is what the word 'entertainment' means, because if the dictionary definition is the intended meaning of the word when used here then video games could well be but toys.
Okay.
Excidium said:mondblut said:I learned to treat other human beings as NPCs to exploit or ignore.
non said:Not to the universe objectively. The human mind creates meaning for itself though, and it's this meaning we are talking about, which should go without saying. Moving on.TripJack said:does anything mean anything at all?