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# Are videogames a path to reflection and self-enlightenment? A reflection on emptiness in games.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/are-videogames-a-path-to-reflection-and-self-enlightenme/
- Published: 2011-06-08T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:53:21.000Z
- Description: Over at the Brainy Gamer, Michael Abbott reflects on how games complicate our visions of personal identity and ask to inquire deeper questions about ourselves. I’ve begun to understand that I value games because they function as meditations on becoming. When I step back and consider what’s in this f
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Over at the [Brainy Gamer](http://www.brainygamer.com/the%5Fbrainy%5Fgamer/2011/06/notes-on-becoming.html?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+brainygamer+%28Brainy+Gamer%29), Michael Abbott reflects on how games complicate our visions of personal identity and ask to inquire deeper questions about ourselves.

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> I’ve begun to understand that I value games because they function as meditations on becoming. When I step back and consider what’s in this for me – why I play games and so eagerly invest myself in them – I believe it’s because they provide authentic expressions of emptiness.  
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> Beyond genre and mechanics, games can illustrate the essential meaning and validity of non-self, and they can provoke reflection on how we construct concepts and systems to make sense of a complicated world.

  
The whole read is quite good (as is Michael’s entire blog).

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