Games with Intellectual Content

[--Pete]

Hi,

So, no, your freedom of action would not be limited in that particular way.

Sounds like an interesting game -- which I'd assumed anyway, given that you enjoyed it. However, while the particular example I gave might have been wrong, the concept that freedom of action is relative to the actions one wants to take is still valid. As is the fact that different people want to take different actions. I do not, for example, find that the law against homicide has any effect on my personal choices. A psychopath or mob boss might.

. . . Hidden Agenda uses few numbers.

On the surface, perhaps. But to work as a computer program, it has to be based entirely on numbers. Unlike, say, non-computer Diplomacy, which is a totally non-numerical game (although it can, in principle, be modeled numerically by game theory). People push concepts around, memes, feelings, hunches. All those inexact, squishy things. Computers come, at the closest, to this type of thinking by using probabilities and random numbers. So far, not even nearly close. And if we take our Gödel neat, we conclude it will never happen.

--Pete