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PLAYING WITH REALITY - KELLY CLANCY GEBUNDEN

'A book to get the neurons firing. As a passionate game player I loved reading a
neuroscientist's perspective on the role games have played in humanity's attempts to navigate
the game of life. A dopamine hit on every page' Marcus du SautoyA sweeping intellectual history
of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world  to
understand our minds and the minds of others  and to practice making predictions about the
future. Games are thought to be older than written language  and have now become the dominant
cultural media-bigger than movies  TV  music  and literature combined. They are also fun. But
as neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy argues  it's time we started taking them more
seriously. In Playing With Reality  she chronicles the riveting and hidden history of games
since the Enlightenment  weaving an unexpected path through military theory  biology 
artificial intelligence  neuroscience  cognitive psychology  and the future of democracy. Games
Clancy shows us  have been deeply intertwined with the arc of history. War games shaped the
outcomes of real wars in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe. Game theory warped our
understanding of human behaviour and brought us to the brink of annihilation-yet still
underlies basic assumptions in economics  politics  and technology. We used games to teach
computers how to learn for themselves  and now we are designing games that will determine the
shape of society and future of democracy. Games also inform the basic systems that govern our
daily lives: the social media and technology that can warp our preferences  polarise us  and
manufacture our desires. Lucid  thought-provoking  and masterfully told  Playing With Reality
makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our
nature.

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