The purpose of play is to learn a control function. If a game goes fully as anticipated, it is usually not generating reward.
When we talk about dopamine, we mostly mean anticipated reward. The signals that behavior controllers send to orchestrate our skills refer semantically to reward promises, not actual one. The actual reward is only relevant for training.
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In biological terms, what does an actual reward look like to you?
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It is a signal type. At the lowest level, it probably translates into a function that integrates over metabolic success for individual neurons.
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