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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 9713099" data-attributes="member: 28487">If you find the Forge useful more power to you. I do not, in part because their precise use of the keywords are sufficiently off the naive meanings that I have to go look up the essays each time it comes up and that is a lot of reading.  From memory I am not even convinced that its conception of Simulation is consistent through all the essays. Any time it is debated here it leads to more smoke and heat than light and in my opinion a lot of it is due to the fact that many of the participants have subtly different ideas as to what it all means and the whole thing degenerates into a bun fight about semantics.Loosely: Physics is the study of how things work, chemistry is the study of electron interaction in atoms and arrangements of atoms.Maths is blood useful and thus appears everywhere but you can usefully spend a lifetime studying math and never have to consider the real world anywhere. I am not convinced that anything useful can be done in the area of rpg player analysis using the tools of philosophy. Perhaps, sociology, anthropology or marketing. All of which probably costs big bucks and only the marketing one might have been done and those that have done it have not released their findings.</blockquote>