Stephen’s Substack
Stephen PalmerConsciousness & the human condition.
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Emotional
Last week I prepared the ground for my idea of what humour is founded in – that fundamental experience that the main three categories of humour all spring from. Today I’m going to present a second summary, this time of emotion; because I th...
Funny!
Dear Subscribers, Followers, & Random Folk Who Are Apparently Getting This From The Substack App…
ORCHESTRA: tatty chord in C Major.
The question in hand is humour. What? Why? How long to evolve? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha? And actuall...
Absurd!
Today we reach the third of the three generally accepted hypotheses regarding humour, which, as before, I shall investigate via my upcoming book The History & Legacy Of The Goon Show: The Goons Go To Africa. Here we go!
Sellers took...
Big Man Little Man?
Having learned about Freud’s catharsis hypothesis of humour last week, and its relationship to pain, we next take a trip from Golders Green to Greece – indeed, to Ancient Greece. There we find our seven heroes milling around in the vicinity...
Catharsis?
And so we reach the three most likely current hypotheses of humour. I have long felt that all three of these described an aspect of humour below which lay the fundamental level, which was not described, so in my upcoming book The History &...
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I am a professionally published author of fiction and nonfiction. My particular interest is the nature of the human condition, with an emphasis on our evolution. My fiction is usually rooted in these themes, while my nonfiction explores it in depth.
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