Neuroscientist Kelly Clancy - How Games Change Reality
We might think of games as trivial fun, but they are deeply intertwined with human history -- and will play a critical role in our future.
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Show Notes
Kelly Clancy is both a neuroscientist and a physicist, and has held positions at MIT and DeepMind. She's also the author of Playing With Reality, a new intellectual history of games that explores the influence that games have played - if you'll forgive the pun - over many centuries on warfare, gambling, economics and much more. If you've ever wanted to know why chess is used as a stand-in for intelligence or what game theory really is, this episode of the podcast is for you.
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