"And that is what play is about, creating a space for uncertainty. To not know who is going to win... That's what makes it fun... play is a way of being that enables you to step into uncertainty. Science is just play with intention.." ~ Beau Lotto
"Because every living system has the same problem which is... uncertainty. The world doesn't come with instructions... You inherit your biases and assumptions, not just from your ancestors, but from your culture, from your family, only a few of them do you actually construct." ~ Beau Lotto
"Try, next time you are in a conflict, don't enter the conflict with an answer, enter the conflict with doubt, enter the conflict with uncertainty, enter it with a question. And you'll find that what happens is that you expand the space of possibility." ~ Beau Lotto
"And once you know how perception works, you have to have empathy, you have to have compassion, you have to enter conflict in a new way. Because you have to enter conflict with the assumption that someone has a different space of possibility than you have. And that they have different history." ~ Beau Lotto
04:20 MJG: "What do you mean by this idea that we are delusional? and why should we embrace this?"
12:05 BL: "We hate uncertainty. We hate not knowing. But what's true of these objects is also true for other people. You can measure the what and the where and the when of a person but you can never measure their why. So every personality you perceive is actually inside us, projected outward. In the same way we color surface, we color other people. Every person you perceive, every personality is inside you, projected outward."
13:20 BL: "Why delusion is a wonderful thing because it creates the possibility to have agency in your own perception"
15:35 BL: "And once you know how perception works, you have to have empathy, you have to have compassion, you have to enter conflict in a new way. Because you have to enter conflict with the assumption that someone has a different space of possibility than you have. And that they have different history."
17:11 BL: "...every living system has the same problem which is the problem of uncertainty. The world doesn't come with instructions. It doesn't tell you what to do. We all come into the world with biases and assumptions. In fact, most of your life happened without you even there. You inherit your biases and assumptions, not just from your ancestors, but from your culture, from your family, only a few of them do you actually construct."
19:22 BL: "Try, next time you are in a conflict, don't enter the conflict with an answer, enter the conflict with doubt, enter the conflict with uncertainty, enter it with a question. And you'll find that what happens is that you expand the space of possibility."
20:55 BL: "And that is what play is about, creating a space for uncertainty. To not know who is going to win... That's what makes it fun."
23:33 BL "Science actually evolved to be effectively play with intention. That's why we evolved play. Because everything that you do, you do to actually decrease uncertainty. You hate it. But there is only one context in which we love uncertainty, which is play, and this is why play evolved. So play is a way of being that enables you to step into uncertainty. Science is just play with intention. So then if you create a game, that's play with rules, that's an experiment. And then if you make observations in that experiment, you have data. So effectively we use science as a Trojan horse to enable kids to have the skills to ask questions and step into uncertainty."
