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# Glass Bead Game

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A way of connecting disparate ideas through language, philosophy, history. Players meld and find coherent patterns in all of human knowledge and experience, accessing the spiritual power of intelligence.

How do I play?
I want to play.
Day in and day out.

Opening example of the glass bead game, this playful synthesis of deep wisdom, this making of consilience:
1. First player, in short order, describes a constructional scheme for all concepts: all properties, classes, things, and relations in extension and intension. By this player’s ontology, all concepts can be derived from a few canonical concepts, including objects due to the player’s thesis that reality is fundamentally informational.
2. Second player demonstrates the assumptions implicit in all language, as well as the grades of generality of those assumptions. This identification of the misplaced and properly placed trust in language leads to an undermining exactly the parts of the argument that are weakest, and preserving the parts that are correct. This leaves the position capable of self-expressing itself and its opposite with all proper conditionals.
3. Third player opens with the maximal universality of the concept of existence, where an understanding of being is presupposed in conceiving of anything which apprehends. The player describes the consequences of the indefinability of being as a central example of self-evidence, upon which a newly grounded definition of meaning drives the first meaningful ontology.
4. Fourth player describes a path to an experiential unification of space and time, via a self-representational approach to consciousness. Demonstrates a translation of the arrow of time to an arrow of space, as well as a spatial form of periodicity as symmetry.
5. Fifth player describes three initial functions (successor, constant and projection functions). These functions, when closed under composition and primitive recursion, can produce most computable functions studied in number theory (addition, division, factorial, exponential, etc.)

Next level:
Mathematical glass bead game.
Cantor, Maxwell, and Euler were just playing a mathematical glass bead game.

Who are the unifiers, what are the unifications?
Who is playing the Glass Bead Game?
The unifications in physics (M-Theory, E8, Space Time), next to the unifications in mathematics (ZF Set Theory, Frege’s Algebra, Higher Category Theory, Langlands Program), next to the unifications in philosophy (Logical Empiricism, Reductionist Physicalism, Integral Theory), next to the unifications in probability and computation (Bayesianism, Turing Machines). Godel, Escher, Bach is beautifully played.

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*Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ekCvQ5Ky0UYjZnu9J2DfWl9CTZ-09H0KqSzPA2ug9Cs/edit?usp=sharing&sa=D&ust=1596495076416000&usg=AOvVaw2V8e3H1vr_l4vMfdXc7v8C)*