"The Future of Post-Human Chess" by Peter Baofu

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"The Future of Post-Human Chess" by Peter Baofu

Post by BB+ » Wed Mar 02, 2011 5:57 am

Happened to run across a review (or maybe a "review" -- it just copies some of the advert blurb) of this:
The Future of Post-Human Chess: A Preface to a New Theory of Tactics and Strategy
Instead, this book provides an alternative (better) way to understand the future of chess, especially in the context of strategy and tactics-while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other). Thus, this book offers a new theory to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on chess in a new way not conceived before.

This seminal project is to fundamentally alter the way that we think about chess, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its 'post-human' fate.
I leave it to you to figure out what the academic-style bafflegab of the first quoted paragraph might mean. Try substituting various words for "chess" in it... Either link has some info about the author, noting he has authored 45 new theories in 36 books.

There is no Amazon review yet.

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Re: "The Future of Post-Human Chess" by Peter Baofu

Post by orgfert » Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:41 pm

BB+ wrote:I leave it to you to figure out what the academic-style bafflegab of the first quoted paragraph might mean. Try substituting various words for "chess" in it... Either link has some info about the author, noting he has authored 45 new theories in 36 books.
At a glance it does look something along the lines of Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

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