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Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-engineer the Mind

Hardcover • 2011 • English • 1. edition

Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-engineer the Mind

By Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel Clement Dennett, Reginald B. Adams

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About the book

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...Show more

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ISBN

9780262015820

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2011

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-engineer the Mind

Format

Hardcover

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