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The rest told them to open their god damn eyes, it looks like a trail of blood.
these are my 2 favorite books. Douglas Hoffstadter presents a theory, that thoughts in general are a process of forming and refining categories. A child has a concept of self, then distinguishes a separate concept for others, then eventually might recognize "my mommy" vs "other mommys", then define an adult woman independently of any offspring... he puts it way better, obviously.
but the point is, you form a category around its exemplar, then distill its traits and refine the category to something more useful that better reflects the world in front of you.
this is why I would love to push the term "wolfendoom" for that genre.
this is my favorite book. Here's a bit from it.
> the list above-
that's, this one:
a publication, a newspaper, all the way down to a very specific one...
> the list above seems to be a hierarchy of generality. The top being a very broad conceptual category, the bottom some very humble particular thing located in space and time. [...] Our thought makes use of an ingenious principle, which might be called the prototype principal;
> The most specific event can serve as a general example of a class of events.
> Everyone knows that specific events have a vivideness which imprints them so strongly on the memory that they can later be used as models for other events which are like them in some way. Thus in each specific event, there is the germ of a whole class of similar events.
so you experience an example, then distill its traits and refine the category to something more useful that better reflects the rest of the world.
this is why I would love to push the term "wolfendoom" for that genre.
Anyway. Disco Elysium. If you're not familiar.. well, turn this video off, go play it. But a quick rundown of some of the relevant information..
This is truly a game where you build a character, in a realistic way. You wake up with amnesia - it takes a long time to learn your name (Harry), and your "skills" are talking to you as though they are someone else's voice in your head. They even talk to each other sometimes.