> [!INFO] Toy Philosophy > **Toy philosophy** applies a model-building methodology to the design of toy models. First, such toys demonstrate or explain philosophical and scientific problems — similar to a “toy problem” in AI or a “proof of concept” in engineering. Second, philosophical toys allow the construction of speculative metaphysics from which impossible objects, alternative physics and epistemologies follow (see [[Cosmoscope_3D|Cosmoscope_3D]]). > > *Resource*: > • On model-building in philosophy see Williamson T. > • ["Toy philosophy" introduced by Negarestani R. (2018)](https://toyphilosophy.com/2018/02/02/toy-philosophy-universes-part-1/) > • [[ATTACHMENTS/PAPERS/ToyPhilosophy. Is it possible to make a philosophical video game.pdf|My essay on toy philosophy & philosophical computer games (2020)]] ## Toys | Entry | Gameplay | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | **[[Borders_GDD\|Borders]]**<br>([Itch](https://loikarin.itch.io/borders))<br>*A pattern of abscence*<br><br>"Death does reveal itself as a loss, but as a loss experienced by those remaining behind. We are at best always just 'near by'. Insofar as it 'is', death is always essentially my own" (Heidegger M., 1927. Being and Time. D.2, ch.1, s.47).<br><br>*A Lynchean hub'n'spoke maze* | ![[ATTACHMENTS/Borders_frontScreenshot.png]]<br><br>![[ATTACHMENTS/Borders_title.png]]<br> | | **[[UniversalAcid_GDD\|Universal Acid]]**<br>([Itch](https://loikarin.itch.io/universal-acid))<br>*Can universal acid dissolve universal cement?*<br><br>Based on Danielle Dennett (2013. 'Intuition Pumps', p. 213)<br><br>#TOY/KIT/ToyPhilosophyKit | ![[DESIGNS/UniversalAcid/UniAcid_gameplay.mp4]] | | **[[Hypercamouflage_GDD\|Hypercamouflage Submarine]]**<br>([Itch](https://loikarin.itch.io/hypercamouflage-submarine))<br>*...on toxic tropical vacation*<br><br>Negarestanian toy<br><br>#TOY/KIT/ToyPhilosophyKit | ![[DESIGNS/HypercamouflageSubmarine/Gameplay.mp4\|Gameplay]] | | **[[Thoughtcrimes_GDD\|Thoughtcrimes]]**<br>([Itch](https://loikarin.itch.io/thoughtcrimes))<br>*Make the best of your mind-weapons!*<br><br>Immersive pitch slides for a schizopolitical school demo<br><br>_Concepts in use_:<br>- "Thoughtcrimes" from G. Orwell's "1984" (1948)<br>- "[[DANCINGSTARS\|Dancing Stars]]" from F. Niezsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1883)<br>- "[[Cosmoscope_3D\|Cosmoscope]]" from D. Chalmers' "Constructing the World" (2012)<br><br>#TOY/KIT/ToyPhilosophyKit<br> | ![[DESIGNS/Thoughcrimes/Thoughtcrimes_gameplay_New.mp4\|Thoughtcrimes_gameplay_New]] | | **[[QuantumImmortality_GDD\|Quantum Immortality]]**<br>([Itch](https://loikarin.itch.io/quantum-immortality))<br>*Death is, we are not. We are, death is not* (by Epicurus)<br><br>Based on Max Tegmark's 1998 thought experiment ([link](https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/crazy.html))<br><br>#TOY/KIT/ToyPhilosophyKit | ![[ATTACHMENTS/QuantumImmortality_gameplay.mov]] | | **[[Inanimatorium_GDD\|Inanimatorium]]**<br>*Realistic game metaphysics*<br><br>Toy worlds engine prototype.<br> | ![[DESIGNS/Inanimatorium/Inanimatorium_gameplay.mov]] | | **[[NoEscape_GDD\|No Escape]]**<br>*no escape* | ![[DESIGNS/NoEscape/NoEscapeGamePlay.mp4]] | | **Pippette Sim**<br>*A lab* | ![[DESIGNS/PipetteSim/PipetteSim_gameplay.mov]] | | **[[ToyWorldsAtlas_GDD\|Toy Worlds: A New Jungle]]**<br>(Colour Book)<br>*Write in blood, colour in essence* | ![[KITS/TOY.worlds/ToyWorldsJungle/II_2.png]] | ## Team Projects - Farm Strategy -- [(GoogleDoc)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sp4TeucHUwPRnhyRyP-QcY81RdmTf57jbLxbdgSdGg0/edit?usp=sharing) (Tabletop) - [[BEHEMOTH team (Conestoga Centre for Virtual Reality Innovation GAME JAM)|Tides: Rise Together]] -- [(Itch)](https://behemoth-team.itch.io/) (Unity) ## [[ANONSENSE • АНОНСЕНС • 🦒|ANONSENSES]] - [[(_IB_) One-Pager GDD|(_IB_) Intentionally Blank]] - [[COMM_W7 - Greenfield review OUTLINE|Greenfield's "Radical technologies"]] (Mobile) - [[A MACHINARIUMSCAPE OF FANTASMOGORIC FÉERIE]] ![[AgainstGameMetaphysics.borders]]