Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-09-29]: Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent Laughter of a baby. Yet baby laughter, a new study shows, differs from adult laughter in a key way: Babies laugh as they both exhale and inhale, in a manner that is remarkably similar to nonhuman primates. [1] Listen to your laughter. And try to laugh. Listen to a baby’s laughter. And try to stay serious. The key of existence is in the irrationality of that laughter in a cosmos full of death and decay. Because there is nothing to cry about. Neither to laugh for. A baby knows that. You are just too busy laughing to understand how serious it is…

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