We could tell you how it works.
That would rather spoil it.
tap the machine to play
There.
Nobody assigned that to you.
Nobody told you which part to touch.
Nobody told you what the controls did.
Nobody told you there was anything to solve.
You just wanted to know.
You observed.You guessed.You changed one thing.You watched what happened.You were wrong.You tried again.
Apparently this used to be called playing.
It is also how quite a lot of science happened.
When you were five, nobody needed to explain why this was worth your time.
Something happened to learning.
Let's undo it.
The argument underneath this page belongs to Katina Bajaj, a clinical psychologist who spent a decade on the science of creativity, named the thing it protects creative health, runs Daydreamers (at daydreamers.co; some asshole bought the .com and has done nothing with it), and said it better on a yellow stage in How play boosts your creativity and resilience. Borrowed with affection and zero affiliation. The machine is ours.