Daniel Dennett: The Origin and Purpose of Humor (1 of 7)
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Uploaded by HaloStarbucks on Nov 30, 2010
This is a lecture that the renowned philosopher, Daniel Dennett, gave at my college, the University of Memphis, on November 14. In this talk, titled "An evolutionary/computational theory of humor", Professor Dennett talks about the origin and purpose of humor from a perspective of evolutionary biology, psychology, and neuroscience. It is based on an upcoming book by Dennett titled "Inside Jokes" that I believe is coming out sometime early next year. Very interesting and funny. I apologize for the jumpiness, I recorded it with my iphone 4.
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im from mexico city, from the isolated land and i really really want to thank to halostarbucks for upload this kind of content, man you are generous !!!!
congrats and please keep rolling this materials !!!!
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@HaloStarbucks I don't believe humor is unique to humans. I've spent many years around animals and noticed humor in pigs, horses and dogs. Horses actually laugh. With all respect, Dr. Dennet is mistaken.
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How the fuck did I miss this???!!!
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Thanks for this man!The science of humor is an awesome subject.
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ima wait till they are all up to watch lol....
as long as they are up before the book comes out
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Thank you.
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I will have the other six videos up tomorrow afternoon, I'm having some technical issues.
HaloStarbucks 1 year ago
@HaloStarbucks
Are you still going to upload the rest? Thanks.
7077572024 11 months ago
@7077572024
No, unfortunately the rest of the vids were lost while I was trying to upload. That really sucks because the Q&A were really interesting. I asked him if he knew of any species besides humans that exhibted anything close to humor-short answer: no humor is unique to us.
HaloStarbucks 11 months ago