>From: Sasha Chislenko <sasha1@netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: Humor and Intelligence
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 02:49:08 -0500
>
>At 09:31 PM 99/10/13 , Zeb Haradon wrote:
>
> >Actually, I think that intelligence of a certain type is a factor in
>choice of a mate, in kind of a roundabout way: through sense of humor.
>Having a sense of humor and being to entertain does attract sexual
>partners. And having a sense of humor, I think, depends on being able to
>make very clever connections between unrelated things. This hypothesis
>needs to be tested. I think there is a correlation between intelligence and
>sense of humor, but I don't know how strong it is.
>
>I have a little piece on humor and intelligence at
>http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/articles/humor.html
>
>It suggests that humor is a reaction to semantic exceptions.
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>Sasha Chislenko <http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html>
>
Suggest that you check out Koestler's "The Act of Creation." He gives a
comprehensive and believable account of exactly how and why humor works,
both from the cognitive and biological perspective.