Humour and brain

   To understand humour we first need to understand the human brain. It is erroneously thought of human brain as a computer that takes input from its surroundings and act on our immediate goals, actually brain multitasks; it uses confusion to achieve complex thoughts. Generally humour succeeds because we take joy in the similar process, i.e., we take pleasure in working through the confusion and laugh when we have come up with a solution.

What is humour?

    We all remember someone; friend, family, relative, colleague etc, who once start to laugh can’t stop laughing. On the face of it, humour is synonymous with being funny, someone cracks a joke or makes a sense of humour, means being quick to recognize a punch line or share an amusing anecdote. But once the surface is scratched we notice that humour is also a coping mechanism; a way of dealing with conflict, sometime that conflict comes in the form of a joke....