Bead Game Research Articles

Glass bead game

Glass bead game

The Bead Game: Response Strategies in Free Assortment

Subjects were presented with a collection of spherical beads of four different colors and were instructed to sort them as fast and as accurately as possible. The sequence in which the beads were sorted was recorded, along with the time intervals between successive beads. Subjects were observed to sort in nonrandom sequences, producing runs in which a given bead type was taken exclusively. The speed and accuracy of the sorting process was positively correlated with the degree of nonrandomness of the sorting sequence. This relationship appeared to be primarily attributable to perceptual factors involved in the initiation of a run and secondarily attributable to facilitation of sorting movements within runs. The effect of sorting sequence was enhanced with bead colors that were harder to discriminate. The results are interpreted in the light of known effects of presentation sequence and stimulus discriminability on stimulus processing.

REALISM, MARXISM AND HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

For a long time one school of players favoured the technique of stating side by side, developing in counterpoint, and finally harmoniously combining two hostile themes or ideas, such as…individual and community. In such a Game the goal was to develop both themes or theses with impartiality, to evolve out of thesis and antithesis the purest possible synthesis.(Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game)

The glass bead game (reply)

This is a reply to an article called 'The Glass Bead Game' by J. L. READSHAW http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/292178a0

The glass bead game

The glass bead game

The Significance of Joculator Basiliensis to the Theme and Structure of the Glasperlenspiel

Critics accept Hesse's many indications that the source for Pater Jakobus in the Glasperlenspiel was Jacob Burckhardt and generally conclude that the Pater is a symbol or portrait of the Basel historian, but they do not look for manifestations of Burckhardt's thought prior to the appearance of the Pater or after Knecht's writing of the circular letter. The result of the insufficient focus is a misinterpretation of the historical insight gained by Hesse from Burckhardt, an insight incorporated structurally in the novel and beginning in the introduction with the shadowy Joculator Basiliensis, forerunner of the Glass Bead Game, who also owes his fictional existence to Hesse's reading of Burckhardt. One of the few critics to note the inadequacy of the general approach to the figure of Pater Jakobus is Hans Mayer, who in an afterword to the Glasperlenspiel, enthusiastically received by Hesse, wrote, Seine Bemerkungen zur Geschichte decken sich im Roman in den meisten Fallen gar nicht einmal mit den bekannten Thesen Jacob Burckhardts. The extent of Burckhardt's influence upon the Glasperlenspiel, ergo Hesse as a mature writer, is much greater than has been hitherto acknowledged; it is important to determine which of Burckhardt's writings influenced Hesse and to examine in detail how Burckhardt's thought pervades the novel, in order to demonstrate Hesse's understanding of history as present time entailing active commitment to the service of humanity. In 1936 Hesse reviewed several books in an article entitled Anmerkungen zu Btlchern and published in Die Neue Rundschau. In this article Hesse reviews the letters of Jacob Burckhardt edited by Fritz Kaphahn and published by the Alfred KrOner Verlag in 1935. He states that, although his reading of Burckhardt's Kultur der Renaissance and Konstantin at the turn of the century, as well as his Basel associations with followers of Burckhardt, had led him to revere the late historian, Nietzsche had claimed for him a position of higher importance, es waren ja damals auch mehrere der Werke Burckhardts, namentlich die 'Griechische Kultur' und die 'Weltgeschichtlichen Betrachtungen,' noch gar nicht erschienen. Erst um Jahre spater, und namentlich seit ich die 'Betrachtungen' kennengelernt hatte, rotckte Burckhardt for mich ganz nach oben, in die Reihe der paar groBen Lehrer und Wissenden.2

Brain-stimulation reward: current issues and future prospects.

This commemorative issue began with abrief discussion of the major themes thathave characterized the study of brain-stimulation reward (BSR) over the pasttwenty-five years. This overview, along withthe research papers which follow, clearlyshow that the field continues to be of majorimportance in brain-behaviour research.However, both the astute observer and thedevil's advocate will also see that much ofthis research has led merely to the refine-ment of important questions which relate tothis phenomenon, rather than their resolu-tion. A silver anniversary is an appropriatetime to assess previous developments and toconsider future prospects. If it appears thatanswers will be forthcoming, then every ef-fort must be made to sustain the momen-tum that has characterized the research inthis field in recent years. If, on the otherhand, there are likely to be only further andfurther refinements of issues in the besttraditions of Hesse's Glass Bead Game, thenperhaps this line of research should be sus-pended until we can find a new MagisterLudi to succeed James Olds.In preparing a prospectus on BSR, thereare two basic issues, each with attendantsubordinate issues, which must be con-sidered. They revolve around questionsof structure and function: (1) what arethe neuroanatomical systems subservingbrain-stimulation reward? (2) what func-tions do such systems have in controllingand modifying an animal's behavioural re-pertoire? As indicated in the prologue, re-consideration of the 'structure' question inlight of histochemical neuroanatomy wasresponsible for a resurgence of interest inself-stimulation in recent years. Researchconcerned with 'structure' is still very muchalive and in fact, as suggested below, holdsevery promise of being resolved in the nearfuture. The 'functional' issue has proven tobe more elusive but there are some en-couraging signs that it too may be solved.

The Bertram Episode in Hesse'sGlass Bead Game

The Bertram Episode in Hesse's<i>Glass Bead Game</i>

Anthropologists and the Glass Bead Game

Anthropologists and the Glass Bead Game

Magister Ludi (The Bead Game).

In the isolated mountain village of Castalia, some time in the future, a group of scholars play the bead game. The moves are transmuted concepts of music, mathematics, philosophy, and physics; their sum is the diadem of intellect. In such a world it surprises no one, of course, that children appointed to the preparatory academies are willing to dedicate themselves for years to mastery of the game in hope of one day playing among the best. The last ripple to disturb the rhythmic variation of generations began with the selection of Joseph Knecht as Magister Ludi. The new Master of the Game was not only unknown except to the Pedagogy, he was untutored in leadership and exercise of power. But doubts were soon assuaged as this earnest young man put aside his own passion for the game, won over the suspicious elders, planned the festivals with distinction, and, in short,