[eli5] Why do babies laugh? Are they capable of finding things funny at such an early stage?
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Laughter is an innate response to finding something funny. Finding something funny is frequently caused by subversion of expectations. You expect one thing to happen, and then something different does.
With babies, their expectations are in such flux due to lack of any experience at this whole… life… thang… that it’s quite easy to subvert their expectations. They literally find everything funny. (To an extent.) So, of course they laugh a lot.
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