@VesselOfSpirit I think humor is the exact counterpart to beauty - identifying a flaw in a projected abstractionpic.twitter.com/ztInweyISH
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@VesselOfSpirit I think humor is the exact counterpart to beauty - identifying a flaw in a projected abstractionpic.twitter.com/ztInweyISH
@sarahdoingthing at least until you start reasoning like, "that's completely random, complete randomness is totally a standard target"
@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
@sarahdoingthing i've seen somebody analogize it to catastrophe theory i think, maybe not legitimately
@sarahdoingthing the idea being something like there's a sudden discontinuous shift in interpretation as a result of small ordinary steps
@sarahdoingthing of the regular order of life, but suddenly it turns out to have been driven by word coincidences in a really contrived way
@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 …
@VesselOfSpirit this explains why it's funny when people trip and fall or get amygdala triggered
@sarahdoingthing i guess the new explanation needn't be mechanical and can instead be about a monkey acting on lower motives
@VesselOfSpirit yes - I guess "person" is the abstraction/expectation that's getting defeated and shown to be flawed here
@VesselOfSpirit and it's a particularly compelling and common one
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