Re:Questions I would ask God about the game of Go
by CydeWeys on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:21PM
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Yes, one can imagine some aliens evolving differently such that they don't enjoy games, but all of them?
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Re:Questions I would ask God about the game of Go
by cylon13 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:35PM
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Of course not all of them, we enjoy games, and we're the only actual data point we have. But since we're just one data point, we really don't know anything about the probability of different subsystems of the mind evolving. I certainly hope we encounter sentient empathetic aliens that enjoy games as much as we do!
Re:Questions I would ask God about the game of Go
by CydeWeys on Saturday January 18, 2020 @01:11PM
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Well for Go to not exist anywhere in the universe there'd either have to be no aliens, or no aliens that enjoy games, or something along those lines. So long as there are some aliens and some aliens that enjoy games, Go and other relatively simple abstract board games do seem like they should inevitably be reinvented many times over across the universe.
Hell, maybe there's aliens that don't enjoy games per se but that use them for other purposes, like deciding legal guilt or who gets to rule.