Experimental Reason and Homo Ludens

Constructivism implicitly redefines Homo Sapiens as Homo Faber, i. e, because it holds that to know X is to construct X.  Now, insofar as, as has been previously argued, Experimental Reason entails Constructivism, it exceeds it, i. e. it further entails risk and uncertainty, which, in the artist, is a playful dimension.  In other words, in the exercise of Experimental Reason, humans are Homo Ludens, i. e. no longer passive constituents in or bystanders of a given world, but active participants in the creation of one.