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"Mirth is in fact highly revealing about cognitive states and processses of the mind. That's why the subtitle of our book is "Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind", because I think we can learn a lot about the computational architecture and economies of the mind by understanding how the mirth plays a role in it."