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Aeon notes that free, imaginative play reveals our most human side, while the rise of gamification threatens to erode that capacity. The essay warns that turning everyday activities into score‑keeping may diminish the very freedom that defines us. The piece appears in Aeon, a long‑form magazine of ideas.

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