Hurley, Matthew M.
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
- ISBN 13:
- 9780262518697
- author:
- Hurley, Matthew M.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- MIT Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2013
- Pages:
- 376
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm
- Genre:
- Health, Family & Lifestyle, Psychology & Psychiatry, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
This book offers an evolutionary and cognitive perspective on humor, exploring why we find certain things funny and how our brains respond to pleasure. According to Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams, humor evolved as a way for our ancestors' brains to cope with the challenges of open-ended thinking.
The authors propose that humor arose from a computational problem that natural selection couldn't solve directly - it had to bribe the brain with pleasure. As a result, we've become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor, which has been shaped by centuries of humorists and comedians.
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