That’s why I ask for one I can’t for nearly into that category of “brain does this to ease itself of discomfort”
Right, but what I’m trying to say is that it’s not possible to give you one. You have built for yourself a theory that is not falsifiable; every example you might be given will be reinterpreted through the lens of pain, and so it will reaffirm your ideas—because you have designed it to.
Imagine someone wearing purple-tinted glasses while asking people to show them something that wasn’t purple-colored. It can’t be done.
This is more or less why I was asking about what value this idea has for you, what it teaches you about the world. If this idea, that literally all comedy is about processing pain, means something, it leads to some conclusion, then it becomes falsifiable. Right now you’re just offering it as a kind of truism.
We prove the existence of looking thru lenses all the time. We can prove color blindness, we measure prescriptions lenses.
You say I’m using a lense but the examples you are using is going threw a sun lense. I like spicy food, spicy food is hot. It doesn’t change that it’s pain. What I mean is you are also using the subjective lense of “some people enjoy it”.
I’m not reinterpreting surprise and shock, I’m stating the brain routes all that through the emotional and stressful areas of the brain then thru the reward center after.
That’s the lense being used.
“Oh I was surprised but it’s okay and safe so I fealrelief and happiness “
It doesn’t really prove anything beyond we have a varied way of processing pain and humor is designed for that purpose just like crying is.
Thats the lense as far as I’m concerned. You don’t have to feel that way but I still do even after what you’ve said.
Other than that I guess it helps to know this for the same reason it helps to know anything. So you can make predictions about life. Like the guy who’s always making edgy joke probably has a lot of pain they aren’t coping with well vs someone who tells a lot of jokes that aren’t distasteful might have a lot of pain but are handling better emotionally.
Right, but what I’m trying to say is that it’s not possible to give you one. You have built for yourself a theory that is not falsifiable; every example you might be given will be reinterpreted through the lens of pain, and so it will reaffirm your ideas—because you have designed it to.
Imagine someone wearing purple-tinted glasses while asking people to show them something that wasn’t purple-colored. It can’t be done.
This is more or less why I was asking about what value this idea has for you, what it teaches you about the world. If this idea, that literally all comedy is about processing pain, means something, it leads to some conclusion, then it becomes falsifiable. Right now you’re just offering it as a kind of truism.
We prove the existence of looking thru lenses all the time. We can prove color blindness, we measure prescriptions lenses.
You say I’m using a lense but the examples you are using is going threw a sun lense. I like spicy food, spicy food is hot. It doesn’t change that it’s pain. What I mean is you are also using the subjective lense of “some people enjoy it”.
I’m not reinterpreting surprise and shock, I’m stating the brain routes all that through the emotional and stressful areas of the brain then thru the reward center after.
That’s the lense being used.
“Oh I was surprised but it’s okay and safe so I fealrelief and happiness “
It doesn’t really prove anything beyond we have a varied way of processing pain and humor is designed for that purpose just like crying is.
Thats the lense as far as I’m concerned. You don’t have to feel that way but I still do even after what you’ve said.
Other than that I guess it helps to know this for the same reason it helps to know anything. So you can make predictions about life. Like the guy who’s always making edgy joke probably has a lot of pain they aren’t coping with well vs someone who tells a lot of jokes that aren’t distasteful might have a lot of pain but are handling better emotionally.