Matthew M. Hurley

Inside Jokes

Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind

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An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor.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—can… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dennett, Daniel C. / Adams, Reginald B.

ISBN: 978-0-262-29481-2
EAN: 9780262294812
Produktnummer: 34355412
Verlag: MIT Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 374 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'091 KB

Über den Autor

Matthew M. Hurley is currently researching teleology and agency at the Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition at Indiana University.Daniel C. Dennett is University Professor Codirector of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He is the author of Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness; Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting; Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (all published by the MIT Press), From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Mind, and other books.Reginald B. Adams, Jr., is Associate Professor of Psychology researching emotion and social perception at Penn State University.