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Hurley, M: Inside Jokes

By Dennett, Daniel C.

Hurley, M: Inside Jokes Philosophy

Hurley, M: Inside Jokes

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Some things are funny?jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed?but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature?aka natural selection?cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured mis-leaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2011-03-04
Publication Date:
2011-03-04
Publisher:
The MIT Press
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
026201582X
ISBN13:
9780262015820
Weight:
650 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
29 cm

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