Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind / Matthew Hurley

Public ISBD Titre : Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Matthew Hurley, Auteur ; Reginald B. Adams, Auteur ; D. C. Denett, Auteur Editeur : MIT Press Année de publication : 2011 Importance : xiii, 359 pages ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-262-01582-0 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Emotion Philosophie Mots-clés : Wit and humor  Laughter  Psychological aspects  Philosophy Index. décimale : 152.43 Esprit, humour (rire) Résumé : Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor. Note de contenu : 1. Introduction -- 2. What is humor for? 3. The phenomenology of humor -- Humor as a property of objects or events -- Duchenne laughter -- The systematic ineffability of humor -- Funny-ha-ha and funny-huh -- The knowledge-relativity of humor -- Mating and dating. 4. A brief history of humor theories -- Biological theories -- Play theories -- Superiority theories -- Release theories -- Incongruity and incongruity-resolution theories -- Surprise theories -- Bergson's mechanical humor theory. 5. Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor. 6. Emotion and computation -- Finding the funny bone -- Does logic or emotion organize our brains? -- Emotions -- The rationality of emotions -- The irrationality of emotions -- Emotional algorithms -- A few implications. 7. A mind that can sustain humor -- Fast thinking: the costs and benefits of quick-wittedness -- The construction of mental spaces -- Active beliefs -- Epistemic caution and commitment -- Conflict; and resolution. 8. Humor and mirth -- The contamination of mental spaces -- Mirth among the epistemic emotions: the microdynamics -- Rewards for a dirty job well done -- "Getting it": basic humor in slow motion -- Interfering emotions. 9. Higher order humor -- The intentional stance -- The difference between the first person and the thrid person -- Anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism -- Intentional stance jokes. 10. Objections considered -- Falsifiability -- Epistemic undecidability -- Apparent counterexamples -- A brief glance at other's models -- Graeme Ritchie's five questions. 11. The penumbra : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor -- Knowledge-relativity -- Scale of intensity -- Boundary cases -- Wit and other related phenomena -- Huron on the manipulation of expectations. 12. But why do we laugh? -- Laughter as communication -- Co-opting humor and laughter -- The Art of Comedy -- Comedy (and Tragedy) in literature -- Humor that heals. 13. The punch line -- Twenty questions answered -- Could we make a robot with a sense of humor? Inside jokes : using humor to reverse-engineer the mind [texte imprimé] / Matthew Hurley, Auteur ; Reginald B. Adams, Auteur ; D. C. Denett, Auteur . - [S.l.] : MIT Press, 2011 . - xiii, 359 pages. ISBN : 978-0-262-01582-0 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Emotion Philosophie Mots-clés : Wit and humor  Laughter  Psychological aspects  Philosophy Index. décimale : 152.43 Esprit, humour (rire) Résumé : Some things are funny -- jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed -- but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature -- aka natural selection -- cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor. Note de contenu : 1. Introduction -- 2. What is humor for? 3. The phenomenology of humor -- Humor as a property of objects or events -- Duchenne laughter -- The systematic ineffability of humor -- Funny-ha-ha and funny-huh -- The knowledge-relativity of humor -- Mating and dating. 4. A brief history of humor theories -- Biological theories -- Play theories -- Superiority theories -- Release theories -- Incongruity and incongruity-resolution theories -- Surprise theories -- Bergson's mechanical humor theory. 5. Twenty questions for a cognitive and evolutionary theory of humor. 6. Emotion and computation -- Finding the funny bone -- Does logic or emotion organize our brains? -- Emotions -- The rationality of emotions -- The irrationality of emotions -- Emotional algorithms -- A few implications. 7. A mind that can sustain humor -- Fast thinking: the costs and benefits of quick-wittedness -- The construction of mental spaces -- Active beliefs -- Epistemic caution and commitment -- Conflict; and resolution. 8. Humor and mirth -- The contamination of mental spaces -- Mirth among the epistemic emotions: the microdynamics -- Rewards for a dirty job well done -- "Getting it": basic humor in slow motion -- Interfering emotions. 9. Higher order humor -- The intentional stance -- The difference between the first person and the thrid person -- Anthropomorphism and anthropocentrism -- Intentional stance jokes. 10. Objections considered -- Falsifiability -- Epistemic undecidability -- Apparent counterexamples -- A brief glance at other's models -- Graeme Ritchie's five questions. 11. The penumbra : non-jokes, bad jokes, and near-humor -- Knowledge-relativity -- Scale of intensity -- Boundary cases -- Wit and other related phenomena -- Huron on the manipulation of expectations. 12. But why do we laugh? -- Laughter as communication -- Co-opting humor and laughter -- The Art of Comedy -- Comedy (and Tragedy) in literature -- Humor that heals. 13. The punch line -- Twenty questions answered -- Could we make a robot with a sense of humor?

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Manager avec les Accords toltèques : un guide vers l'intelligence collective / laurence Aubourg

Public ISBD Titre : Manager avec les Accords toltèques : un guide vers l'intelligence collective Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : laurence Aubourg, Auteur ; Olivier Lecointre, Auteur Editeur : Bruxelles : De Boeck Année de publication : 2012 Collection : Le management en pratique Importance : 143 p ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-2-8041-7166-7 Langues : Français (fre) Catégories : Dynamique de groupe Motivation Philosophie Qualité de vie au travail Mots-clés : Motivation  Dynamique des groupes  Satisfaction au travail  Efficacite? organisationnelle  Philosophie tolte?que Index. décimale : 658.314 Discipline, moral, motivation du personnel (absentéisme, faute professionnelle, maintien, rotation du personnel ; stimulation de la créativité, de la productivité) Résumé : Performance et se?re?nite?... est-il possible de les conjuguer au quotidien, dans l'entreprise et dans les organisations ? Notre socie?te? se transforme et nous sommes pris dans une tempe?te e?conomique, sociale, environnementale, individuelle. Naviguer et diriger dans ce contexte complexe est un challenge, a? la fois individuel et collectif, de chaque instant. Comment maintenir une base stable permettant aux e?quipes d'agir, de progresser et de re?ussir ? De?velopper une forme de paix et de se?re?nite? et accroi?tre la puissance et la cre?ativite? collectives est possible, en mettant en oeuvre des principes qui nous viennent d'une sagesse ancestrale : les "Accords tolte?ques". Cette approche multimille?naire trouve tout a? fait sa place dans notre monde contemporain ! Les auteurs vous montrent pourquoi et comment cette de?marche d'e?quipe facilite l'e?mergence d'une intelligence collective, au profit de tous. Olivier Lecointre, manager-coach, a expe?rimente? avec son e?quipe cette approche particulie?re et a priori e?trange?re au monde de l'entreprise que sont les Accords tolte?ques, dans le but d'apporter plus de lumie?re, de confiance, de se?re?nite? et de performance. Laurence Aubourg a, quant a? elle, inte?gre? avec succe?s dans sa pratique de coach professionnelle des outils inspire?s de la sagesse tolte?que. Leurs te?moignages et leurs conseils pratiques vous donnent les cle?s pour explorer vous-me?me cette nouvelle voie et mener votre propre projet de mise en place au sein de votre e?quipe. Manager avec les Accords toltèques : un guide vers l'intelligence collective [texte imprimé] / laurence Aubourg, Auteur ; Olivier Lecointre, Auteur . - De Boeck, 2012 . - 143 p. - (Le management en pratique) . ISBN : 978-2-8041-7166-7 Langues : Français (fre) Catégories : Dynamique de groupe Motivation Philosophie Qualité de vie au travail Mots-clés : Motivation  Dynamique des groupes  Satisfaction au travail  Efficacite? organisationnelle  Philosophie tolte?que Index. décimale : 658.314 Discipline, moral, motivation du personnel (absentéisme, faute professionnelle, maintien, rotation du personnel ; stimulation de la créativité, de la productivité) Résumé : Performance et se?re?nite?... est-il possible de les conjuguer au quotidien, dans l'entreprise et dans les organisations ? Notre socie?te? se transforme et nous sommes pris dans une tempe?te e?conomique, sociale, environnementale, individuelle. Naviguer et diriger dans ce contexte complexe est un challenge, a? la fois individuel et collectif, de chaque instant. Comment maintenir une base stable permettant aux e?quipes d'agir, de progresser et de re?ussir ? De?velopper une forme de paix et de se?re?nite? et accroi?tre la puissance et la cre?ativite? collectives est possible, en mettant en oeuvre des principes qui nous viennent d'une sagesse ancestrale : les "Accords tolte?ques". Cette approche multimille?naire trouve tout a? fait sa place dans notre monde contemporain ! Les auteurs vous montrent pourquoi et comment cette de?marche d'e?quipe facilite l'e?mergence d'une intelligence collective, au profit de tous. Olivier Lecointre, manager-coach, a expe?rimente? avec son e?quipe cette approche particulie?re et a priori e?trange?re au monde de l'entreprise que sont les Accords tolte?ques, dans le but d'apporter plus de lumie?re, de confiance, de se?re?nite? et de performance. Laurence Aubourg a, quant a? elle, inte?gre? avec succe?s dans sa pratique de coach professionnelle des outils inspire?s de la sagesse tolte?que. Leurs te?moignages et leurs conseils pratiques vous donnent les cle?s pour explorer vous-me?me cette nouvelle voie et mener votre propre projet de mise en place au sein de votre e?quipe.

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Post-truth / Lee McIntyre

Public ISBD Titre : Post-truth Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Lee McIntyre, Auteur Editeur : MIT Press Année de publication : 2018 Collection : MIT press essential Knowledge series Importance : xvi, 216 p ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-262-53504-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Epistémologie Philosophie Mots-clés : Truth  Truthfulness and falsehood Index. décimale : 121 Épistémologie (ouvrages généraux sur la vérité, philosophie de la connaissance ; théories de la cohérence, connaissance, correspondance) Résumé : Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into information silos. What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples--claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote--and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism--specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth--in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it Note de contenu : What is post-truth? -- Science denial as a road map for understanding post-truth -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth. Post-truth [texte imprimé] / Lee McIntyre, Auteur . - MIT Press, 2018 . - xvi, 216 p. - (MIT press essential Knowledge series) . ISBN : 978-0-262-53504-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Epistémologie Philosophie Mots-clés : Truth  Truthfulness and falsehood Index. décimale : 121 Épistémologie (ouvrages généraux sur la vérité, philosophie de la connaissance ; théories de la cohérence, connaissance, correspondance) Résumé : Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news," from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into information silos. What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples--claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote--and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism--specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth--in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it Note de contenu : What is post-truth? -- Science denial as a road map for understanding post-truth -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth.

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Sensemaking : the power of the humanities in the age of the algorithm / Christian Madsbjerg

Public ISBD Titre : Sensemaking : the power of the humanities in the age of the algorithm Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Christian Madsbjerg, Auteur Editeur : New-York : Hachette Books Année de publication : 2017 Importance : xxi, 216 p ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-316-39324-9 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Analyse de données Philosophie Sciences humaines et sociales Mots-clés : Social sciences and management  Humanities  Phenomenology  Philosophy. Index. décimale : 658.001 Philosophie et théorie de la gestion générale Résumé : Based on his work at companies like Ford, Christian Madsbjerg's SENSEMAKING is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, an impassioned defense of a liberal arts education, and a blueprint for how companies and leaders can use human intelligence to solve problems. Humans have become subservient to algorithms. Every day brings a new Moneyball fix--a math whiz who will crack open an industry with clean fact-based analysis rather than human intuition and experience. As a result, we have stopped thinking. Machines do it for us. Christian Madsbjerg argues that our fixation with data often masks stunning deficiencies, and the risks for humankind are enormous. Blind devotion to number crunching imperils our businesses, our educations, our governments, and our life savings. Too many companies have lost touch with the humanity of their customers, while marginalizing workers with liberal arts-based skills. Contrary to popular thinking, Madsbjerg shows how many of today's biggest success stories stem not from "quant" thinking but from deep, nuanced engagement with culture, language, and history. He calls his method sensemaking. In this landmark book, Madsbjerg lays out five principles for how business leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals can use it to solve their thorniest problems. He profiles companies using sensemaking to connect with new customers, and takes readers inside the work process of sensemaking "connoisseurs" like investor George Soros, architect Bjarke Ingels, and others. Both practical and philosophical, Sensemaking is a powerful rejoinder to corporate groupthink and an indispensable resource for leaders and innovators who want to stand out from the pack Note de contenu : Foreword: The end of thinking -- Introduction: The human factor -- Making sense of the world -- Silicon Valley is a state of mind -- Culture, not individuals -- Thick data, not just thin data -- The savannah, not the zoo -- Creativity, not manufacturing -- The North Star, not the GPS -- What are people for? Sensemaking : the power of the humanities in the age of the algorithm [texte imprimé] / Christian Madsbjerg, Auteur . - New-York : Hachette Books, 2017 . - xxi, 216 p. ISBN : 978-0-316-39324-9 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Analyse de données Philosophie Sciences humaines et sociales Mots-clés : Social sciences and management  Humanities  Phenomenology  Philosophy. Index. décimale : 658.001 Philosophie et théorie de la gestion générale Résumé : Based on his work at companies like Ford, Christian Madsbjerg's SENSEMAKING is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, an impassioned defense of a liberal arts education, and a blueprint for how companies and leaders can use human intelligence to solve problems. Humans have become subservient to algorithms. Every day brings a new Moneyball fix--a math whiz who will crack open an industry with clean fact-based analysis rather than human intuition and experience. As a result, we have stopped thinking. Machines do it for us. Christian Madsbjerg argues that our fixation with data often masks stunning deficiencies, and the risks for humankind are enormous. Blind devotion to number crunching imperils our businesses, our educations, our governments, and our life savings. Too many companies have lost touch with the humanity of their customers, while marginalizing workers with liberal arts-based skills. Contrary to popular thinking, Madsbjerg shows how many of today's biggest success stories stem not from "quant" thinking but from deep, nuanced engagement with culture, language, and history. He calls his method sensemaking. In this landmark book, Madsbjerg lays out five principles for how business leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals can use it to solve their thorniest problems. He profiles companies using sensemaking to connect with new customers, and takes readers inside the work process of sensemaking "connoisseurs" like investor George Soros, architect Bjarke Ingels, and others. Both practical and philosophical, Sensemaking is a powerful rejoinder to corporate groupthink and an indispensable resource for leaders and innovators who want to stand out from the pack Note de contenu : Foreword: The end of thinking -- Introduction: The human factor -- Making sense of the world -- Silicon Valley is a state of mind -- Culture, not individuals -- Thick data, not just thin data -- The savannah, not the zoo -- Creativity, not manufacturing -- The North Star, not the GPS -- What are people for?

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