in last term we studied the theory of play in which we heard may different arguments from across the board about what play is and what makes it different from a game, here are just some of my thoughts about the subject but i am not trying to challenge any of the theory's that we studied in class for the reason i believe allot of them have a strong element of fact just in different ways.
my idea of play is something that you enjoy unconditionally, when i was a child i remember clearly when i was having fun playing time flew by as if time was being pushed forwards, this feeling is what i believe indicates if you are playing or not. a good example of this would be if you have ever had to preform a task that you found extremely tedious and boring it appears to take for ever, being the complete opposite of playing and fun it has the reverse effect.
so my idea is that play is not a physical thing bound by rules of reality and physics, play is more of a feeling like a emotion, as we covered in class chimps have a play face to show other chimps that they are playing and not really fighting, again to pull that face for long periods of time would be torture if that chimp did not have a sense of enjoyment from it.
this concludes my thoughts on this topic for today i will update this theory more after ive had more time to think it over.
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