Episode #146 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 2 - Vitalism

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  So in response to all the different theories about what makes us laugh that have been laid out historically,

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  Henry Bergsson presents his famous hybrid theory and his work released in the year 1900, understandably titled Laughter.

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  Now, by the end of our explanation here today,

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  we're going to ultimately conclude with the idea that Bergsson believes laughter at its core is ultimately a message to other people.

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  But to understand what he means by that,

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  we're going to need to have a deeper understanding of why he thinks we laugh when we witness the mechanical encrusted upon the living.

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  But to understand that,

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  we're going to need some more detail about one of the key ideas that helps him ground his entire worldview,

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  process philosophy.

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  And to get started doing that,

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  we got to go all the way back to episode one of this show to a pre-Socratic philosopher born in the year 535 BC,

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  a man by the name of Heraclitus.

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  So because it was seven years ago,

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  if Heraclitus was going to make a bumper sticker of the simplest way to put his biggest idea,

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