Tim Clare

And we've studied... animals because we see play in animals right and we've studied say kittens that play and evolutionary psychologists looked at them and went hey come on there must be this must be training them to hunt but when we've done studies there have been expansive studies on preventing kittens from chasing bulls, chasing, doing these kind of pretend hunting behaviours.

And does it affect their ability to hunt when they grow into adulthood? Not at all. Not at all. So this presents us with a huge conundrum. Why do we play? Now, there are plenty of archaeologists who look at things like chess

And does it affect their ability to hunt when they grow into adulthood? Not at all. Not at all. So this presents us with a huge conundrum. Why do we play? Now, there are plenty of archaeologists who look at things like chess

And does it affect their ability to hunt when they grow into adulthood? Not at all. Not at all. So this presents us with a huge conundrum. Why do we play? Now, there are plenty of archaeologists who look at things like chess

any game that involves some kind of strategy and say well this must be teaching us lots of lessons about war this must be training our generals but the fact is that being a great chess player doesn't make you particularly good at commanding an army the skills aren't hugely transferable so I don't know. I do think that games for me are like politics you can touch.

any game that involves some kind of strategy and say well this must be teaching us lots of lessons about war this must be training our generals but the fact is that being a great chess player doesn't make you particularly good at commanding an army the skills aren't hugely transferable so I don't know. I do think that games for me are like politics you can touch.

any game that involves some kind of strategy and say well this must be teaching us lots of lessons about war this must be training our generals but the fact is that being a great chess player doesn't make you particularly good at commanding an army the skills aren't hugely transferable so I don't know. I do think that games for me are like politics you can touch.

To be able to play a game, to be able to sit around a board and say this piece represents this, this piece represents that, to come up with rules, it requires the ability to negotiate and for abstract thought. And I think those things are definitively huge components of any successful civilization.

To be able to play a game, to be able to sit around a board and say this piece represents this, this piece represents that, to come up with rules, it requires the ability to negotiate and for abstract thought. And I think those things are definitively huge components of any successful civilization.

To be able to play a game, to be able to sit around a board and say this piece represents this, this piece represents that, to come up with rules, it requires the ability to negotiate and for abstract thought. And I think those things are definitively huge components of any successful civilization.

Not at all. And the problem is that when you see human beings who haven't had the chance to play growing up, There is evidence that those humans have various emotional and cognitive challenges when they grow into adults. But the key thing there is you can't experimentally randomize that, you know, you can't have a

Not at all. And the problem is that when you see human beings who haven't had the chance to play growing up, There is evidence that those humans have various emotional and cognitive challenges when they grow into adults. But the key thing there is you can't experimentally randomize that, you know, you can't have a

Not at all. And the problem is that when you see human beings who haven't had the chance to play growing up, There is evidence that those humans have various emotional and cognitive challenges when they grow into adults. But the key thing there is you can't experimentally randomize that, you know, you can't have a

an experimenter saying we're going to stop these kids from playing so it can only be children who for whatever reason haven't had the opportunity to do that and they've often been deprived of other things in their life and what they did find when they've studied kittens is kittens who've been deprived of the chance of lots of bonding time with their mothers

an experimenter saying we're going to stop these kids from playing so it can only be children who for whatever reason haven't had the opportunity to do that and they've often been deprived of other things in their life and what they did find when they've studied kittens is kittens who've been deprived of the chance of lots of bonding time with their mothers

an experimenter saying we're going to stop these kids from playing so it can only be children who for whatever reason haven't had the opportunity to do that and they've often been deprived of other things in their life and what they did find when they've studied kittens is kittens who've been deprived of the chance of lots of bonding time with their mothers

do become worse hunters so this is the thing is game playing games are tied up with all sorts of other things uh including just hanging around and socializing and all the other wonderful things that human beings do so we don't know whether playing games actually teaches us key life skills or whether

do become worse hunters so this is the thing is game playing games are tied up with all sorts of other things uh including just hanging around and socializing and all the other wonderful things that human beings do so we don't know whether playing games actually teaches us key life skills or whether

do become worse hunters so this is the thing is game playing games are tied up with all sorts of other things uh including just hanging around and socializing and all the other wonderful things that human beings do so we don't know whether playing games actually teaches us key life skills or whether

Games are what they would call an epiphenomenon of happiness and normal development, which is that games are something that spontaneously happens when human beings and indeed members of the animal kingdom are thriving.