Kelly (Neuroscientist) Clancy
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what's at stake when we forget what games we're really playing. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the minds of others, and to make predictions about the future. Games are an essential aspect of humanity and a powerful tool for modeling reality. They're also a lot of fun. But games can be dangerous, especially when...