

Weather predictions are useful in knowing how to adjust your own behaviour in light of fullest knowledge, forecasts may cause you to carry an umbrella or change travel plans. A rumour or advice from top stockbroker can influence market sentiment a stock price, and a racing pundit can make a tip that changes odds on a horse (though not influence the outcome of the race, unless horses recognize and respond to increased cheers from the backers, which I doubt). What is the point trying to discern information about which you can do absolutely nothing? Self fulfilling prophecies do occur however. You cannot change or ameliorate your date and time of birth or effect the course of the stars. Passive forms of fortune-telling rely on pure chance without any skill or judgement asked of the questioner. That is, the nature of the game itself is described as a dynamical system.” A theoretical framework we call dynamical systems game is presented, in which the game itself can change due to the influence of players’ behaviors and states. Tsakli can also be used in divination, but the methods are contemplative, closer to tarot than active divination games (games are dynamical systems) “ Dynamical systems game theory and dynamics of games. Enochian Chess Golden Dawn game is one example, Zenet is another. My interest in active divination (rather than passive divination) goes back a bit now. MVT unconstrained hardware may offer some synergies when used in conjunction with nets or trad AI. The race amongst super computer developers to ‘predict’ stock markets, or weather systems, or winners of horse races, is fierce.

This paper has proved very prescient! Today neural nets are commonly used by game developers. Although quite old now, there haven’t been any or many other papers on nets and divination games. The first section consists of a literature review of artificial neural nets and their application to a variety of classic boardgames. in Neural Computation, CCCN Uni Stirling, a variety of net architectures were trialed for specific use in Enochian Chess software, and the commercial version is now in its 3rd edition over 26 years on.
