Posted on 03/12/2013 at 01:38 AM
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I could mention some people that are revered by higher learning who played games avidly when they weren't being geniuses such as: Marcel Duchamp, who played so much Chess that he started making a living at it; Igor Stravinsky, who used to love Spaghetti Westerns (I know that's not gaming but he might have played Call of Juarez or Red Dead Redemption if he lived today); Joseph Haydn, who played cards regularly with the staff of his employer's estate; and Wolfgang Mozart, who was obsessed with Billiards and played daily.
I've also heard theortical physicists talk about "gaming", meaning a way to test ideas by setting up a simulation. It makes me think that the act of gaming is just another way of thinking about things. So then maybe, if you don't game, you don't think. How about that for an insult to said schoolastic?