Here is an example I recall. A vine crosses your path and you think there is a snake on your foot. Then you realize the nature of the vine but the systemic effects of snake fear do not immediately subside. The result is calming laughter. Perhaps, then, it's an evolved compensation mechanism for biochemical states revealed intellectually as inappropriate?
A deep subject! On 9/10/08, Eric Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen humour modelled as a form of mental dissonance, when an > expectation is defied, especially a grave one. It may arise, then, as > a higher-order recognition of bizarreness in the overall state of the > mind at that point. Humour seems to me to be somehow fundamental to > intelligence, rather than originating from a given faculty. > > > On 9/10/08, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --- On Wed, 9/10/08, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 4.To have a sense of humour, as I more or less indicated, >>> you have to be >>> able to identify with the "funny guy" making the >>> error - and that is an >>> *embodied* identification. The humour that gets the >>> biggest, most physical >>> laughs and even has you falling on the floor, usually >>> involves the biggest, >>> most physical errors - e.g. slapstick. There are no plans >>> that I know of, to >>> have computers "falling about." >> >> No, the computer's task is to recognize humor, not to experience it. You >> only have to model the part of the brain that sends the signal to your >> pleasure center. >> >> -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> agi >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now >> RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ >> Modify Your Subscription: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> > ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=111637683-c8fa51 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
