eli5 Why do humans laugh? What do humans benefit from developing the ability to laugh?
In: Biology
(Doesn’t explain laughing fully because no one knows exactly, just that it’s weird and feels relieving)
Generally, our brains figure they’ve got stuff figured out and it just does its thing. Jokes take this certainty and flips it on its head and all around by adding in something unexpected. The brain doesn’t know what exactly us going on, and that’s threatening to its certainty and causes the laugh response, which brings up happy chemicals. So, *alleviation* seems like the biggest effect.
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