“Rather play is driven by interior, phenomenological satisfactions. In “this intensity, this absorption, this power of maddening, lies the essence, the primordial quality of play” (p. 2). In this sense, play is an aesthetic event, a time when experience is gathered and evaluated in terms of its emotional resonance. Play is marked typically by mirth, fun, and tension. For such reasons, play must not be understood as a demonstration of human rationality, a careful calculus of the effects of thought and action. However, as he (p. 3) famously puts it, “play only becomes possible, thinkable, and understandable when an influx of mind breaks down the absolute determinism of the cosmos”