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Games and Autonomy

This chapter shows how games can help us to develop our agency and autonomy. They do so by allowing us to record different modes of agency. We, as limited beings, need to cycle between different modes of agency in order to cope with the difficulties of the world. In this chapter, we discover that games can serve as a communication vessel for those modes of agency. We can inscribe modes of agency into a game, and explore different modes of agency by playing a variety of games. Thus, games constitute a library of agencies. This library can help us to develop our autonomy, by increasing our inventory of agential modes, and helping us to recognize and deploy the appropriate agential mode for the appropriate circumstance. By offering us short-term restrictions on how to act, games force us into new postures of agency. This can help us become more fluid with our agency in the long term. Games are yoga for our agency.