"Playfulness is what makes us human. Doing pointless, purposeless things,
just for fun. Doing things for the sheer devilment of it. Being silly
for the sake of being silly. Larking around. Taking pleasure in
activities that do not advantage us and have nothing to do with our
survival. These are the highest signs of intelligence. It is when a
creature, having met and surmounted all the practical needs that face
him, decides to dance that we know we are in the presence of a human. It
is when a creature, having successfully performed all necessary
functions, starts to play the fool, just for the hell of it, that we
know he is not a robot."
Continue to read in New Statesman
(http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/plays-thing)
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