Humor and being human

A few years ago, I read the fascinating Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams, and was partly delighted and partly crushed. The crushed part was because I'd long wanted to write something about the philosophy of humor, and I found that Hurley, Dennett, and Adams had anticipated everything that I had in mind to say. I was delighted because they had delved far deeper than I had contemplated, and presented a fascinating theory as to why we laugh at jokes. In The Objective Standard, I give a brief overview of their thoughts, and offer a few of my own.