Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams
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Overview: 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 offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose,
evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with
open-ended thinking. Mother Nature — aka natural selection — cannot just order the brain to find
and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure.
So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists
over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is
humor.
Genre: Non Fiction Psychology Philosophy Humor
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