Kelly explores the history of play and games with Kelly Clancy, a neuroscientist and physicist who has held research positions at MIT, University of California – Berkley, University College London and the AI company DeepMind. She has a new book, it’s called “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”  

“Play is practice for the unexpected.” 

“Intelligent choices don’t fall into a single fixed ordering; they depend on context.” 

“Game theory posits humans as a fixed bundle of preferences, when they are, in fact, learning systems.”