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I'm not sure you need a utilitarian justification at all. For example: My 4 year old daughter makes playdoh & modeling clay into spheres for fun. She also mak

• madrox 3y ago
  Point taken, though from my understanding hunter gatherer groups didn't have a ton of time for leisure...especially anything involving carrying a heavy object with them as they roamed that didn't have utility.
  • nyrikki 3y ago
    Not all hunter gatherer groups are purely nomadic, and in general they have more free time than farmers. That decrease in free time is one way some theories tie farming to alcohol production. As substance is far more difficult when farming. Here is a study with modern people: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/farmers-have-less-leisure-time-than-hunter-gatherers-study-suggests https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/farmers-have-less-leisur...
  • svnt 3y ago
    This is not inaccurate. Play seems to have been a fundamental part of the social life of basically any human group we can discern record of. The best research we have indicates that these groups had more free time than most of us engaged in modern employment.
• flir 3y ago
  Is the lack of cubes evidence of utility? I mean, if they're just doing it for fun, like your daughter, wouldn't there be more that just spheroids?