If you are interested in the nature of laughter and its affects on
stress and immunology, perhaps you would like to read my piece:
Laughter as a displacement activity: the implications for humor
theory.

It can be accessed through the academic section of HumorLinks.

http://www.humorlinks.com/cgi-bin/sites/page.cgi?g=Academic%%2Findex.html&d=1&imp...

Scroll down to the picture of the elephant and the blind men and click
on: "A new perspective on laughter and humor"

Let me know what you think.

Baz

On Sep 3, 8:17 am, Baz hotmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:17:30 -0700, Baz wrote:

Amazing effort. thanks for sharing your work.

Fitting laughter or humor into a strict category is certainly a
perspective.

"The basic process of laughing can be defined as the displacement of
emotive neural activity, on the fear (negative) side of approach and
avoidance motivations, when it is denied expression by opposition or
redundancy."

Being a strict and Orthodox Layman, this seems forced.

Laughter is a result of process. Your point is that this is the result of
one type of process which is on the 'fear side of approach'. Laughter is
basically Fear as part of the primal "fight or flight" mechanic the
bridge being the emotive neural activity or displacement behavior.

In the case of the child being thrown into the air.

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:39:43 -0700 (PDT), chazwin yahoo.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:09:45 -0400, Art wrote:

God is in the fractals

On Sep 3, 2:17 am, Baz hotmail.com> wrote: