@VesselOfSpirit my humor beliefs are based on http://books.google.com/books/about/Inside_Jokes.html?id=InufugRltEMC … - humor as pornified reward for finding error in projected abstraction
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing i've seen somebody analogize it to catastrophe theory i think, maybe not legitimately2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@sarahdoingthing the idea being something like there's a sudden discontinuous shift in interpretation as a result of small ordinary steps2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@sarahdoingthing of the regular order of life, but suddenly it turns out to have been driven by word coincidences in a really contrived way1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@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 …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit this explains why it's funny when people trip and fall or get amygdala triggered5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing i guess the new explanation needn't be mechanical and can instead be about a monkey acting on lower motives1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit yes - I guess "person" is the abstraction/expectation that's getting defeated and shown to be flawed here2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing laughter at someone as negotiation about whether there's a social consensus to stop treating them as a person1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit weeellll I think we do it at ourselves too so I'm not sure it's that nasty2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@sarahdoingthing that could theoretically just be an evolutionarily irrelevant side effect, right? but yes common sense suggests less nasty
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