
Science of Play w/Gordon Burghardt
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The Five Criteria for Play
Play is not directly benefiting it in terms of like spreading genes or something in this very moment. This is something that's maybe training practice that's maybe we'll have downstream utility, but right in thisvery moment isn't benefiting. So there are many ways in which play can, as I say, be useful, but not necessarily in the way that you see it. And one another like flight and flight of some things had something started with gliding, some things had feathers for warmth that eventually used to flight. There was a few different ways that that the evolution of flight took off. Pun intended, I guess, but, but so play is the same way."
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