"beautiful families are all alike, every funny family is funny in its own way"
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@VesselOfSpirit haha that was in my first draft1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@VesselOfSpirit I think humor is the exact counterpart to beauty - identifying a flaw in a projected abstractionpic.twitter.com/ztInweyISH
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing at least until you start reasoning like, "that's completely random, complete randomness is totally a standard target"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@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 abstraction2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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 -
Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
@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
@VesselOfSpirit important that laughter is a superset of humor. “an intellectual contrast,” “a palpable absurdity,” very dennett
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