![]() You’re intelligent and capable and all of human knowledge belongs to you.īurke goes a bit further and says that you don’t need to settle for second- or third-hand interpretations of the truth. All that matters is that you understood it in the end, and you were able to act on that understanding. It isn’t a failing that you needed to ask someone to explain something to you slowly and clearly. It doesn’t matter if you asked for help while playing the game. ![]() Instead, you have the capability to start asking questions and making discoveries for yourself.Īnd the fact that you’ve beaten The Witness is proof of your capabilities. You don’t have to wait for someone to come around and give it to you. Presenter James Burke sums up the core argument of his show, which is that understanding how the world works is how you have a say in its future.īurke claims that the scientists and technologists who understand the fundamentals of nature are the “true driving force of humanity.” And he maintains that you can have that power, too. It is from the final episode of the original series. The video is from the 1978 BBC science program Connections. If you battle through Blow’s puzzles, you may end up feeling more capable of taking the more complex ideas of the real world.Īnd having confidence in your capability to understand and solve problems is something The Witness reiterates in one of the first videos you play in the theater room hidden beneath the windmill. The Witness is a way to help you fine-tune your fight-or-flight response in the face of challenging cerebral problems. Studies have also shown that rats (and some primates) play games to fine-tune their fight-or-flight responses. This is preparation for a life of hunting and fighting off competitors. A lion cub plays with its siblings to help it get comfortable with moving and leaping. In this way, The Witness is no different from the games of other species. But over time, you slowly begin building up a mental vocabulary that enables you to decode and conquer these mazes until you reach a level of fluency with the game’s world. Or you might assume that you’re not smart enough to figure these things out. When you first try to solve these, they can appear daunting to the point of impossibility. In The Witness, you encounter confusing puzzles with esoteric rules. Playing The Witness in the context of its wider argument is about the importance of games throughout history to both people and animals. You have the capability to seek the truth That’s a big case to make, and it all starts with you playing a game. Individually, we witness existence moment to moment, and then we collectively combine those experiences over eons to empower the next generation of explorers to witness something new as a representative of our species. The Witness claims that the search for truth is the story of humanity. Interpreting the truth through common experience is important to understanding it.You have the capability to seek the truth.
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