maybe if beauty is hitting a target that's hard to hit, humor is missing a target that's hard to miss
@sarahdoingthing which i guess fits well with the thing about "something mechanical in something living" http://www.timoroso.com/philosophy/writings/sketches/2006-04-09-henri-bergsons-theory-of-laughter …
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@sarahdoingthing the thing that pretended to be capable of being reasoned about in theory-of-mind kind of ways turns out to be -
@sarahdoingthing better modeled by lower-level mechanistic explanations that you wouldn't expect to lead to natural behavior
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@VesselOfSpirit this explains why it's funny when people trip and fall or get amygdala triggered -
@sarahdoingthing hmm. your model that the person abstractly floats forward suddenly reducing to complicated/error-prone walking mechanics?
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