Paracosm — a detailed imaginary world
A paracosm is a richly detailed imaginary world.
Paracosms are commonly understood to originate in childhood and to have one or more
Worldplay as a cognitive strategy
"Now I see why my teachers here in Castalia emphasize modeling a hypothetical place or system (playing at a world, building
The projection of an imagined reality involves self-initiated problem raising and problem solving — and at two levels of constraint
Two levels of constraint of self-initiated problem raising and problem solving while projecting an imagined reality:
1. First, the transposition of real
Experiencing landscape like the architecture of your apartment
Tomáš Benka used to say
I wish I could experience & remember a landscape the way I experience and remember a room
A scene: moving along the road as an obligation, contrasted with a pause as play
Tomáš Benka sometimes described movement along a path as the opposite of play, because the traveler has agency in the form of
Information organized in small chunks that can be accessed and sequenced at random is much more valuable than when you have to take it in serial form
Extract from Lila by Robert M. Pirsig Published by Bantam Press, 1991
In Robert Pirsig's novel, Lila: An Inquiry into
Book is:
* time-based art,
* DJ set,
* a sequence, a chain
* a route, a journey: it has segments, junctions, and waypoints, but you