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...have probably heard that there are no games yet that tap the potential of the Playstation 2 system. Not that it matters, since the hardware remains difficult to get. Still, "Kessen," by Koei Games, feels like a hint at the Playstation 2's potential as a new form of interactive entertainment...
...Playing "Kessen" makes me feel like it might just be possible to create "War and Peace" for the PS2. Imagine a game reproducing the historical battles of Napoleon, set in the sweep of a grand story. While "Kessen" gets lost in the details, it sets the platform for such a possibility...
...genetically prewired to make friends with any adult who cares for them. The implications of this research challenge some of the standard beliefs on how children should be reared, how they should be educated, and what they are capable of becoming as they grow up. Yale Psychology Professor William Kessen, who has been studying infants for more than 30 years, says in admiration of the newborn baby's zestful approach to life, "He's eating up the world." Harvard Psychology Professor Jerome Kagan, another pioneer, offers only one caveat about the new research: "Don't frighten parents...
These experiments demonstrated the infant's very early capacity for what psychologists call "intermodal perception"-that is, to combine the brain's perceptions of two different activities, in this case vision and muscular action, which is virtually the first form of thinking. Says Yale's Kessen: "The past 15 to 20 years have demonstrated that the child has a mind. The next several years will be used to find out how it works...
...Yale's Kessen acknowledges that the Harvard report faces the chance of being voted down, like it Yale counterpart, because of the unpredictable and usually conservative nature of the faculty. But he warns against worrying about the now, because "You start weakening your report when you start thinking about it. Can't be constrained by what the faculty will do. Speak to the needs of the College, and don't say platitudinous things...