You see, if we had a thumbs down button I know I wouldn't be able to help myself and just vote down every post Pippy makes.
Pippy, you clutch at straws; you attempt to make arguments out of nothing. Problem solving "pseudo-real" problems is the same thing as problem solving "real" problems. They use the same section of the brain, the same skills are developed, etc, etc. We are attracted to solving problems in various forms because we don't get enough of them in everyday life. There aren't that many real-world scenarios I can think of where I'd have to work out how to arrange specific items in an order that uses the least space, but "pseudo-real" problems give us the opportunity to encounter such problems. I daresay this is why games were invented in the first place (other than the entertainment factor).
Games develop our ability to work out things, to strategise, and to think both logically and laterally. The only difference between the games we do on paper and the games we do on consoles is that the consoles stimulate our brains more by giving us more input, and opening up a vast arena of new problems to deal with which simply cannot be done on paper.
You don't watch tv or play computer games, and you think you are the expert on such things? Why do you always seem to talk as if you are a master of something you have no experience in? I've played video games for years, watched tv for longer, and I can't report any such "hypnotism" you speak of. I'm focussed on something more than I possibly would be than other tasks, but only because my brain is being stimulated with so much information.
What I find most ironic about this is that according to your profile, you have spent just over 4 days on these forums, in front of a screen that flickers at either 50 or 60 times a second, being bombarded with information in both graphical and textual format, yet you don't seem to complain about this?
Pippy, you clutch at straws; you attempt to make arguments out of nothing. Problem solving "pseudo-real" problems is the same thing as problem solving "real" problems. They use the same section of the brain, the same skills are developed, etc, etc. We are attracted to solving problems in various forms because we don't get enough of them in everyday life. There aren't that many real-world scenarios I can think of where I'd have to work out how to arrange specific items in an order that uses the least space, but "pseudo-real" problems give us the opportunity to encounter such problems. I daresay this is why games were invented in the first place (other than the entertainment factor).
Games develop our ability to work out things, to strategise, and to think both logically and laterally. The only difference between the games we do on paper and the games we do on consoles is that the consoles stimulate our brains more by giving us more input, and opening up a vast arena of new problems to deal with which simply cannot be done on paper.
You don't watch tv or play computer games, and you think you are the expert on such things? Why do you always seem to talk as if you are a master of something you have no experience in? I've played video games for years, watched tv for longer, and I can't report any such "hypnotism" you speak of. I'm focussed on something more than I possibly would be than other tasks, but only because my brain is being stimulated with so much information.
What I find most ironic about this is that according to your profile, you have spent just over 4 days on these forums, in front of a screen that flickers at either 50 or 60 times a second, being bombarded with information in both graphical and textual format, yet you don't seem to complain about this?
