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035			_a(OCoLC)1400013979
092			_a306.487 _bC587
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aClancy, Kelly, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPlaying with reality : _bhow games have shaped our world / _cKelly Clancy.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRiverhead Books, _c2024.
264		4	_c©2024
300			_a360 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [309]-347) and index.
520			_a"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 we mistake the model worlds of games for reality itself and let gamification co-opt human decision making. Playing with Reality explores the riveting history of games since the Enlightenment, weaving an unexpected path through military theory, political science, evolutionary biology, the development of computers and AI, cutting-edge neuroscience, and cognitive psychology. Neuroscientist and physicist Kelly Clancy shows how intertwined games have been 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 behavior and brought us to the brink of annihilation-yet still underlies basic assumptions in economics, politics, and technology design. 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. In this revelatory new work, Clancy makes the bold argument that the human fascination with games is the key to understanding our nature and our actions"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aGames _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aGames _xHistory. _9130287
650		0	_aGame theory. _9134143
650		0	_aGames and technology.
650		0	_aVideo games _xSocial aspects. _9158666
650		0	_aWar games. _9343505
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