Download Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Daniel C. Dennett, Matthew M. Hurley, Reginald B. Adams Jr. PDF
By Daniel C. Dennett, Matthew M. Hurley, Reginald B. Adams Jr.
Some issues are funny--jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The a ways aspect, Malvolio together with his yellow garters crossed--but why? Why does humor exist within the first position? Why will we spend quite a bit of our time passing on a laugh anecdotes, making wisecracks, staring at The Simpsons? In within Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams provide an evolutionary and cognitive viewpoint. Humor, they suggest, developed out of a computational challenge that arose while our long-ago ancestors have been provided with open-ended considering. mom Nature--aka typical selection--cannot simply order the mind to discover and fasten all our time-pressured mis-leaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the mind with excitement. So we discover them humorous. This wired-in resource of delight has been tickled relentlessly by means of humorists over the centuries, and we now have turn into hooked on the endogenous brain sweet that's humor. Hurley, Dennett, and Adams describe the evolutionary purposes for humor and for laughter. They research why humor is pleasant and fascinating, frequently sharable, outstanding, playful, nonsensical, and insightful. they provide an "inside," mechanistic account of the cognitive and emotional equipment that offers the humor event, and use it to give an explanation for the wide range of items which are discovered to be funny. in addition they offer a initial caricature of an emotional and computational version of humor, arguing (Star Trek's facts on the contrary) that any really clever computational agent couldn't be engineered with out humor.
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That quality of action, speech, or Writing, which e>;cites amusement; oddity, jocularity, facetiousness, comicallty, fun. b. The faculty of perceiving what Is ludicrous or amusing, or of expressing It in speech, writing. or other composition. " There is a tight little circle of definitlons that go from humor to funny and amusing, and then to that which causes taugllter-and when you look up taugllter you find that it Is the expression made when something is funny, amusing, or humorous. From this, and from our dally Ilves, two apparent truisms emerge: humor causes laughter, and humor Is a quality of the th ings that we laugh at .
That quality of action, speech, or Writing, which e>;cites amusement; oddity, jocularity, facetiousness, comicallty, fun. b. The faculty of perceiving what Is ludicrous or amusing, or of expressing It in speech, writing. or other composition. " There is a tight little circle of definitlons that go from humor to funny and amusing, and then to that which causes taugllter-and when you look up taugllter you find that it Is the expression made when something is funny, amusing, or humorous. From this, and from our dally Ilves, two apparent truisms emerge: humor causes laughter, and humor Is a quality of the th ings that we laugh at .
Laughter has a variety o f causes, and when we look more closely at how (and why) laughter is caused, t he Idea of humor as a quality of perceived objects and events will also have to be abandoned, or at least transformed into something qui te unfamiliar. The obvious first adj ustment to the idea of humor as a quality Is to avail ourselves of the familiar distinction, first formulated by Charles Boyle in the seventeenth-century and most fam ously articulated by John Locke (1690) shortly thereafter, between primary qualities like size, shape, and solidity, and secolldary qualities like color, taste 1 smell, or warmth, which can be seen to be dispositiolls to produce experiences of certain sorts in organisms of certain kinds.