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Inside Jokes
Why things are funny — a cognitive science account of humour. Rigorous and actually amusing.
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Cognitive scientist whose 2011 Inside Jokes, with Daniel Dennett and Reginald Adams, proposed a unified theory of why humans evolved laughter — as a reward for catching the mind's own mistaken inferences.
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