{"id":421,"date":"2008-01-02T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T17:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=421"},"modified":"2008-01-12T20:43:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T19:43:10","slug":"what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/01\/02\/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What have you changed your mind about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/\">Edge.org<\/a> presents their yearly question to various thinkers and scientists. This time it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\"><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_index.html\">WHAT                             HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?<\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2008\/q08_index.html\">Lots of good stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Me, I changed my mind about fiction in games &#8211; I used to discount it, but then realized my error.<br \/>\n[<strong>Clarification: <\/strong>This change of mind happened between 1998 and 2003. <em>Half-Real<\/em> was written <em>after<\/em> I changed my mind.]<\/p>\n<p>I find it pretty fascinating to change my mind &#8211; suddenly you are in a slightly different world from before and everything has to be reevaluated.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I did change my mind about changing my mind as being always-good. It can also be overdone with a certain self-indulgent gesture as in &#8220;<em>5 minutes ago I thought X, but now I realize it&#8217;s Y, and I am never afraid to admit mistakes &#8211; that&#8217;s how great I am<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And you don&#8217;t want to go there either. This is one of the things that makes life (and research) so amazingly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 2008!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edge.org presents their yearly question to various thinkers and scientists. This time it is: WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY? Lots of good stuff. Me, I changed my mind about fiction in games &#8211; I used to discount it, but then realized my error. [Clarification: This change of mind happened between 1998 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/01\/02\/what-have-you-changed-your-mind-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What have you changed your mind about?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}