“I would strongly suspect humor doesn’t make you more rational/smarter/scientific, but is a fun grounds for playing around with strange ideas and patterns.”
Most humor (aside from physical comedy or a silly persona) seems to require deep verbal concept formation. Pointing out unexpected similarities based on the structures of ideas isn’t cognitively trivial; it means that the comedian is able to extract essential features across superficially different subjects.
“I would strongly suspect humor doesn’t make you more rational/smarter/scientific, but is a fun grounds for playing around with strange ideas and patterns.”
Most humor (aside from physical comedy or a silly persona) seems to require deep verbal concept formation. Pointing out unexpected similarities based on the structures of ideas isn’t cognitively trivial; it means that the comedian is able to extract essential features across superficially different subjects.