Woah, totally stealing my methods. I've never met anyone else who notified me of what I had a high google ranking for :) I also use that trick on myspace.
I think I was interested in Nomic, but have not played it yet. What is it? :) I often blog about wikipedia articles before I read them, to remind me to read them when I have time :)
Ooh, I just happen to have a draft of a "Welcome to Nomicide" post I'm writing in TextEdit over here, and I just finished the "What is Nomic?" section. Let me just inflict it on you post it for you...
What is Nomic?
Nomic is a philosophical exercise. Nomic is a simulation of operating legal systems. Nomic is a wacky and unique gaming experience. Nomic is whatever the players want it to be - a card game, a Monopoly variant, a computer program ... almost anything.
...that was pretty uninformative. Let's back up.
Back in 1982, a philosophy research professor by the name of Peter Suber published an early draft of the rules of the game in Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas column. The book from which the rules were lifted was finally completed in 1990, and is now available online: it is called The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change.
As you may have guessed, Nomic is a game invented to demonstrate this thesis.
Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs
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(I was looking 'cuz I'm co-maintainer of a Livejournal Nomic game - nomicide, the sixth hit. And, coincidentally, founded two days before this post.)
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I think I was interested in Nomic, but have not played it yet. What is it? :) I often blog about wikipedia articles before I read them, to remind me to read them when I have time :)
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What is Nomic?
Nomic is a philosophical exercise. Nomic is a simulation of operating legal systems. Nomic is a wacky and unique gaming experience. Nomic is whatever the players want it to be - a card game, a Monopoly variant, a computer program ... almost anything.
...that was pretty uninformative. Let's back up.
Back in 1982, a philosophy research professor by the name of Peter Suber published an early draft of the rules of the game in Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas column. The book from which the rules were lifted was finally completed in 1990, and is now available online: it is called The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change.
As you may have guessed, Nomic is a game invented to demonstrate this thesis.
Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs ( ... )
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