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“To ask how humor works in a grown-up person is to ask how everything works in a grown-up person,” says Marvin Minsky (1988), making the issue sound profoundly important until the depressing realization sets in that understanding humor must consequently be remarkably complicated. Some solace comes from the fact that you can insert virtually any moderately complex psychological activity into Minsky’s quotation, replacing “humor,” and the quotation still works. Nevertheless, Minsky is right: humor is an intricate, somewhat murky phenomenon, probably explaining why scores of deep thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through Descartes, Hobbes, and Kant to Darwin, Dewey, and Freud have had theories of humor.
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Carroll, P.J., Young, J.R., Guertin, M.S. (1992). Visual Analysis of Cartoons: A View from the Far Side. In: Rayner, K. (eds) Eye Movements and Visual Cognition. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2852-3_27
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