{"id":66427,"date":"2022-12-18T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=66427"},"modified":"2022-12-18T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T04:01:37","slug":"learning-to-make-choices-in-an-uncertain-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/learning-to-make-choices-in-an-uncertain-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to make choices in an uncertain world"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since 2020, the world has changed and some say it has become\u00a0uncertain<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0The rules of the game have in any case changed, and these are no longer clear.\u00a0How can human beings and society play with these new rules \u2013 or this absence of rules?\u00a0And how can the specific functioning of games shed light on this new situation?<\/p>\n

Let us first remember that the rules are a fundamental characteristic of the game and that it is they that allow the player to be inventive.\u00a0Roger Caillois wrote as early as 1958: \u201cThe term game then combines the ideas of limits, freedom and invention.\u00a0“.\u00a0Whether he has to guess words without saying others (in the case of\u00a0Taboo<\/a>\u00a0) or has to draw a concept in a given time (in the case of\u00a0Pictionary<\/a>\u00a0), it’s because he is forced the player becomes creative.\u00a0It’s because there are rules that he has to surpass himself to succeed in winning.<\/p>\n

In addition to its use in brainstorming sessions, creativity, in business innovation departments, this characteristic of the game is found in many areas.\u00a0In literature,\u00a0<\/span>the OuLiPo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has made it its guideline: lay down rules to solicit creativity.\u00a0The best-known example is that of Georges Perec who wrote an\u00a0<\/span>entire novel without the letter \u201ce\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0C\u00e9dric Villani, winner of the Fields medal, the \u201cNobel\u201d of mathematics, also evokes this balance between rules and freedom in his\u00a0<\/span>TedX on the birth of ideas<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

During periods of confinement, we were also able to see on a daily basis how much human creativity was exacerbated by constraints.\u00a0Denis Cristol has also identified\u00a0a few examples<\/a>\u00a0, whether inventive, funny, supportive, musical, even medical or from EdTech.<\/p>\n

The rules and the freedom to choose<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Beyond creativity, the constraint linked to the rules confronts the player with decision-making.\u00a0At each turn, in fact, he is called upon to make choices.\u00a0In Monopoly, he will have to decide whether or not to buy a particular street or avenue, for example.\u00a0In larger games like\u00a0Catan<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Carcassonne<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Seven Wonders<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Risk<\/a>\u00a0, there are more rules and so players are even more free as they can come up with very different strategies.\u00a0Each game will be an opportunity to test another way of playing.<\/p>\n

The game then makes it possible to see \u2013 action after action \u2013 the consequences of the participants’ choices.\u00a0This\u00a0immediate feedback<\/a>\u00a0makes it possible to visualize the strategies put in place.\u00a0They increase the player’s motivation and ability to\u00a0progress<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

This intrinsic characteristic of the game, which allows both to choose and to visualize the consequences of one’s choices, therefore has an influence on the progress of the game. By extension, if the game includes a scenario with characters, it will be possible to influence the course of the scenario.\u00a0The world of video games has already taken hold of it.\u00a0This is the case of the Quantic Dream studio, which offers its players\u00a0choices that influence the course of history<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Detroit: Become Human<\/em>\u00a0, writer and studio head David Cage crafted a 5,000+ page script to create a complex narrative with over 65,000 possibilities.\u00a0The storyline changes based on the player’s decisions, dialogues, and moral choices.\u00a0Beyond the player’s experience, this video game raises questions about human\/robot relationships.<\/p>\n

On the need to find rules (of the game)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Applied to crucial subjects, the game allows participants to discover the consequences.\u00a0This characteristic explains in particular the exponential use of the \u201cserious game\u201d in the fields of pedagogy, training, awareness\u00a0of current complex subjects<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Players can thus visualize the consequences of their action on the planet, for example as in\u00a0Change Game<\/a>\u00a0produced by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) foundation.\u00a0They can also reflect on their choice and their ethics through games such as\u00a0Are You Sure<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Finethics<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

As you will have understood, in a game, it is in fact the rule that makes the human being creative and it is the multiplicity of rules that gives him the freedom to make choices and establish a strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

This explains, for example, that Tic Tac Toe is a game that tires quickly and from which one turns away out of boredom.\u00a0This game, which is made up of only one rule (align three identical signs in a line on the grid) is not restrictive enough to encourage the brain to surpass itself and therefore does not solicit its creativity.\u00a0It also doesn’t include enough rules to allow you to establish a strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a world that has become uncertain, fuzzy, unexpected, seemingly non-existent rules are therefore necessarily destabilizing for human beings.\u00a0Maybe we will have to project new rules like\u00a0<\/span>Red Team<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, learn to read between the lines, to spot weak signals;\u00a0perhaps use foresight to detect new rules and learn to play with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Isabelle Patroix is a Doctor of Literature, Playground Manager at Grenoble School of Management (GEM)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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