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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 Dennett, and Reginald Adams...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262518697
ISBN-10: 0262518694
Publication Date: 2/8/2013
Pages: 376
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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