A neuroscientist explains how playing games has shaped us

A neuroscientist explains how the brain created games to hack itself and humans have had some sense of this for thousands of years.

Kelly Clancy is a neuroscientist studying the biology of intelligence. She has held research positions at MIT, Berkeley, University College London, and the AI company DeepMind. Her essays have appeared in Wired, Harper’s, and The New Yorker.