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9780262518697 / 0262518694

Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind

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Uitgever:MIT Press, 2013

Editie:Softcover

Taal:Engels

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An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor.

Some things are funnyjokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossedbut 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 Natureaka natural selectioncannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps 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.

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