Hurley, Dennett, and Adams’ INSIDE JOKES: USING HUMOR TO REVERSE-ENGINEER THE MIND
“Our brains are engaged full time in real-time (risky) heuristic search, generating presumptions about what will be experienced next in every domain. This time-pressured, unsupervised generation process has necessarily lenient standards and introduces content-not all of which can be properly checked for truth-into our mental spaces. If left unexamined, the inevitable errors in these vestibules […]