Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Memory narrativises itself.
We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.