Why Play? … Musings during This Pandemic

DocPlayer : why doesn ’ t your desktop play this way ?

Document-management is becoming a central and troubling issue for typical users of computers; and the need for more intuitive, flexible, and effective management-systems is becoming more and more evident. This paper reports on work to develop DocPlayer, a solution inspired by the control-metaphor of media-players. First, other attempts to address the document-management problem are reviewed; th...

Desflurane why this choice?

1. It should have a rapid and smooth onset of action. Efficiency is a particularly important factor in the ambulatory setting [1] 2. There should be a rapid recovery of cognitive functioning without clinically-significant discomfort. Postoperative pain is a major limiting factor in determining when a patient can be discharged home after surgery. 3. The absence of adverse effects such as nausea ...

Why Play Logical Games?

We owe to Paul Lorenzen an extraordinarily rich intuitive idea, first presented in his papers ‘Logik und Agon’ [Lorenzen 1960] and ‘Ein dialogisches Konstruktivitätskriterium’ [Lorenzen 1961], the fruitfulness of which we are barely encompassing today. In the language of game theory, it is the idea of defining logical particles in terms of rules for non-collaborative, zero-sum games between two...

Why Work When Can Play

Why do adult dogs 'play'?

Among the Carnivora, play behaviour is usually made up of motor patterns characteristic of predatory, agonistic and courtship behaviour. Domestic dogs are unusual in that play is routinely performed by adults, both socially, with conspecifics and with humans, and also asocially, with objects. This enhanced playfulness is commonly thought to be a side effect of paedomorphosis, the perpetuation o...