One of my favorite books is Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. The gist is that humor is the "joy of debugging". Our brains are inference m

One of my favorite books is Inside Jokes Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. The gist is that humor is the "joy of debugging". Our brains are inference machines and make a lot of conclusions that might eventually end up being incorrect. If we didn't have a joy-bringing mechanism in our brains to clean up the erroneous cruft we would less-likely perform this important maintenance. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inside-jokes https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inside-jokes