avi on play

created for m of care – nov 30 23 – Why do we Play? A film by Dr Khalil ‘Avi’ Betz-Heineman – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNugL0ZttI]:

14 min video – A video made by Avi as part of his “Why Do We Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom, and Morality” reading group. [https://davidgraeber.institute/why-do-we-play-the-origins-of-self-consciousness-freedom-and-morality/]

for david on fun essay

Dr Khalil “Avi” Betz-Heinemann is an anthropologist fascinated by how we care about animals. He is currently researching mosquitos at Helsinki University.

notes/quotes from 14 min video – interviewing his fellow academics at uni of helsinki:

2 min – chris bagley: psychologist and director of charity called house of imagination … key focus: try and unravel what are social determinants of mental health.. well being and distress.. with aim of co constructing a society that allows people to thrive.. t

huge .. maté basic needs.. hari rat park law..

findings:

1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen

2\ if we create a way to ground the chaos of 8b legit free people

5 min – viljam kankaanpaa-kukkonen: on play being analogous to sleep.. why do we sleep.. seems so pointless.. theories.. 1\ restorative – nervous system needs rest needs to dose out just to keep it functioning 2\ plasticity for repair.. form new.. learn things.. t

art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as global re\set.. to fittingness (undisturbed ecosystem)

7 min – chris: have to do sequential robotic things in order to be successful..

supposed to’s of school/work

11 min – chris: on not being able to predict subatomic particles.. so if subatomic particles seem to have free will and can do things we can’t predict.. how can you ever say can unravel .. what human consciousness thinks or is gonna do .. t

graeber unpredictability/surprise law.. carhart-harris entropy law.. fromm spontaneous law..

intellectness as cancerous distraction we can’t seem to let go of.. there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

13 min – anna pauliina rainio: life is unpredictable.. play creates diff possibilities

need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs

imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)

what the world needs most is the energy of 8b alive people

and avi’s 5 min video invitation to nov 30 m of care – Why Do We Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom, and Morality – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuvrk3qEqZk]

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avi on belonging

avi on decision making

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