03720oam 2200697Ka 450 991079205130332120190503073412.00-262-29481-81-299-28430-20-262-30355-8(CKB)2560000000099631(EBL)3339581(SSID)ssj0000835588(PQKBManifestationID)12331547(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835588(PQKBWorkID)10990633(PQKB)10574799(MiAaPQ)EBC3339581(OCoLC)830323679(OCoLC)857961036(OCoLC)961542584(OCoLC)962599922(OCoLC)966264047(OCoLC)988417331(OCoLC)990674034(OCoLC)992079643(OCoLC)994962444(OCoLC)1030669908(OCoLC)1037902681(OCoLC)1038628080(OCoLC)1045502480(OCoLC)1055377180(OCoLC)1065050829(OCoLC)1081281703(OCoLC-P)830323679(MaCbMITP)9027(Au-PeEL)EBL3339581(CaPaEBR)ebr10672791(CaONFJC)MIL459680(OCoLC)830323679(EXLCZ)99256000000009963120130318d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrInside jokes using humor to reverse-engineer the mind /Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. AdamsCambridge, Mass. MIT Press©20111 online resource (374 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-262-51869-4 0-262-01582-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.What is humor for? -- The phenomenology of humor -- A brief history of humor theories -- Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor -- Emotion and computation -- A mind that can sustain humor -- Humor and mirth -- Higher order humor -- Objections considered -- The penumbra : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor -- But why do we laugh? -- The punch line.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 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.LaughterPsychological aspectsLaughterPhilosophyWit and humorPsychological aspectsWit and humorPhilosophyCOGNITIVE SCIENCES/GeneralPHILOSOPHY/GeneralLaughterPsychological aspects.LaughterPhilosophy.Wit and humorPsychological aspects.Wit and humorPhilosophy.152.4/3Hurley Matthew M.1977-1401753Dennett D. C(Daniel Clement)143804Adams Reginald B1555770OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910792051303321Inside jokes3817927UNINA