Here you go:

https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion&oq=recursion&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i512j0i512j46i199i465i512j0i512l6.1743j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

If a rule is detrimental to the thread then it can be dismissed.

Here is mine:

https://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Distribution_of_prime_numbers

The Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

Reminds me of Calvinball.

As a rule, @Banno's game goes nowhere, and is unsatisfying, unlike mathematics, and dysfunctional, unlike natural language.

One might therefore suspect that natural language is not entirely rule based or totally arbitrary, but based on ; natural principles - hence the name. At the least that these things are already governed by human needs and purposes that establish -shall we say?- ground rules.

The game presupposes language, and relies on pre-established 'turns'. I think the philosophy of turns has some depth to it and might even be worth a thread of its own.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W. B. Yeats

Turns with no centre to hold them - that is Banno's game. The opposite of the development of the order of language, it illustrates the collapse of language.

Some rules must always be obfuscated

Mornington Crescent.

We're clearly playing the Soctratic rules, wherin "Mornington Crescent cannot be reached prior to passing through ten stations... or their essential forms..."

Oh... and Aldgate East.

Play with teddy bears.

You are probably right. Sorry, I haven't got a clue.

Only those aged over 100 years old may continue this game

Do we have to use objective standards of measurements of time, or can we play once we 'feel' one hundred years old?

You make the rules

We all make the rules together. My bear, Russell, who is tall and thin, unlike most fat teddies, says , Hello,' but I am about to go out for the day, so my rule for now, is try to have fun and be surreal. But, I am not that keen on games apart from scrabble.

:up:

No member can post a new rule until all members of the forum have posted. This rule is only invalid on dates with uneven numbers that contain the letter G in their name.

This is why it is so hard for life to self-assemble into novels and metaphysics. No cooperation. No cooperation at all.

Now if your life depended upon following the rules and your nociceptors were wired into this game, such that everyone had some skin in it, maybe you'd all show Banno a bit more respect. Or go absolutely mad.

All rules shall compete for the power to enact and expedite themselves.

Rules that follow rants about peoples behavior are automatically void.
1. All rules following this rule must be numbered.

Don't post here.

Don't post here. — Banno

Some very negative thinking going on there. :gasp: How can you expect this thread to prosper without posts?

Do not post rules that will have negative affects on the development of the thread.

This is a very strange thread but, perhaps, it meets the strangeness of the times in which we live.

This is a very strange thread — Jack Cummins

:scream: In what way is it strange? Why did you not post a rule? :smile:

I am sure that most times can be seen as strange, even though I think that ours are particularly strange. As for posting, I saw the earlier message from @Banno saying not to post, and that seemed a contradiction outrightly, and, before I read your reply, it had the effect of making me wish to write something. But, I am confused and don't know if he will see this kind of interaction as useless or useful for whatever he is trying to achieve.

This is a very strange thread — Jack Cummins

Why did you not post a rule? — Sir2u

That was a rule.

Rules may exist in order to be broken. They are guidelines but rigid adherence to rules may undermine the principles behind them. Therefore, I refuse to adhere to the rules of your game.

It's your turn to make the next rule. — Banno

I refuse to adhere to the rules of your game. — Jack Cummins

...and yet clearly you did.

We are probably entrenched in layers and layers of rules and even the most disobedient people are obeying some kind of rhetoric of rules. Even writing sentences involves following of certain rules. In order to go beyond rules entirely, we might need to go beyond the spectrum of human meanings entirely.

That was a rule. — Banno

How can a descriptive sentence be a proscriptive rule?

we might need to go beyond the spectrum of human meanings entirely. — Jack Cummins

Well, errr. Maybe other people beings have a different way of thinking. :worry: