LEADER 03720oam 2200697Ka 450 001 9910792051303321 005 20190503073412.0 010 $a0-262-29481-8 010 $a1-299-28430-2 010 $a0-262-30355-8 035 $a(CKB)2560000000099631 035 $a(EBL)3339581 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835588 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12331547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835588 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10990633 035 $a(PQKB)10574799 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339581 035 $a(OCoLC)830323679$z(OCoLC)857961036$z(OCoLC)961542584$z(OCoLC)962599922$z(OCoLC)966264047$z(OCoLC)988417331$z(OCoLC)990674034$z(OCoLC)992079643$z(OCoLC)994962444$z(OCoLC)1030669908$z(OCoLC)1037902681$z(OCoLC)1038628080$z(OCoLC)1045502480$z(OCoLC)1055377180$z(OCoLC)1065050829$z(OCoLC)1081281703 035 $a(OCoLC-P)830323679 035 $a(MaCbMITP)9027 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10672791 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL459680 035 $a(OCoLC)830323679 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000099631 100 $a20130318d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInside jokes $eusing humor to reverse-engineer the mind /$fMatthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (374 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-51869-4 311 $a0-262-01582-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index. 327 $aWhat 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. 330 $aSome 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. 606 $aLaughter$xPsychological aspects 606 $aLaughter$xPhilosophy 606 $aWit and humor$xPsychological aspects 606 $aWit and humor$xPhilosophy 610 $aCOGNITIVE SCIENCES/General 610 $aPHILOSOPHY/General 615 0$aLaughter$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aLaughter$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aWit and humor$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aWit and humor$xPhilosophy. 676 $a152.4/3 700 $aHurley$b Matthew M.$f1977-$01401753 701 $aDennett$b D. C$g(Daniel Clement)$0143804 701 $aAdams$b Reginald B$01555770 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792051303321 996 $aInside jokes$93817927 997 $aUNINA