Encoding the Worldview Structure with Gaming

The perception of reality through things and symbols have an archaic nature origin deeply rooted in the public awareness which goes back to the preliterate culture with its mnemonic tokens and symbolic of modus operandi. One of the forms of such activity is exactly the game. Game culture for some archaic civilizations had a ritual meaning linking with the magic and religious practice. The special kind of games deriving from the deep antiquity in many cultures has been consisted of testing the skill of answering questions of any kind. In ancient religious rituals the questions which priests by turns asked one another during the sacrifice though are similar to the usual riddles but they concern an ultra-mundane knowledge: on sacral things and secret names, on the origin of life and the repeatability of nature phenomena. The sacral game of such a kind leads to the emergence of philosophy since to be over the run of life means to construct some worldview structure assigning in it the room both for the weird, sacral and for the ordinary, routine. Modern intellectually advanced men treat the game not completely serious but even during the discussing quite serious matters the specificity of game behavior becomes mostly relevant. Child games making ready for any kind of human activity and at the same time they by their activity itself preserve memories of the past experience in the sense that the experience is in essence the continuing communication. Its continuity is reproduced in the “game culture” where the mimesis seizes gamers determining their way of thinking and activity. Thus, the game culture of human society is based on the structure of worldview going back besides, from the one hand, to the ancient forms of cognitive human activity (cognitive ontogenesis), and, from the second hand, making ready for any kind of human activity, determining the way of thinking and acting in future (cognitive phylogenies).