wonderful, thanks for all this juicy stuff, the saucy challenge, and citing Huron's work--all this reminds me of the music neuroscience term "reward prediction error" --when we are surprised, expectations undone, by a change in rhythm in music. I know that infants begin to do little surprise experiments on their caretakers, as though playing with this momentary induction of grace. "Humor is what happens when we are told the truth more quickly and more directly than we're used to." --George Saunders
wonderful, thanks for all this juicy stuff, the saucy challenge, and citing Huron's work--all this reminds me of the music neuroscience term "reward prediction error" --when we are surprised, expectations undone, by a change in rhythm in music. I know that infants begin to do little surprise experiments on their caretakers, as though playing with this momentary induction of grace. "Humor is what happens when we are told the truth more quickly and more directly than we're used to." --George Saunders