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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: chazwinchazwin Date: Sep 3, 2008 01:39
On Sep 3, 8:17 am, Baz hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> It can be accessed through the academic section of HumorLinks.
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> http://www.humorlinks.com/cgi-bin/sites/page.cgi?g=Academic%%2Findex.h...
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> Scroll down to the picture of the elephant and the blind men and click
> on: "A new perspective on laughter and humor"
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> Let me know what you think.
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> Baz
You demonstrate with amazing clarity and deep conviction the utter
paucity of evolutionary psychology and it obsession with insisting
that there has to be an explanation in "evolutionary" terms to every
human characteristic, when in fact no such thing is possible or
necessary in the light of spontaneous generation of infinite variety.
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