by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams Jr. · MIT Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780262015820
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In 'Inside Jokes', Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective on humor. They propose that humor evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses, but 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.
