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Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
Author: Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams Jr.
Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennet...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262015820
ISBN-10: 026201582X
Publication Date: 3/1/2011
Pages: 384
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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