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abstrac ACTH activity adrenal cortex adult amusement animal appear audience automatic aware Bateson becomes behavior cake cartoons cataplexy chapter chasing climax comedy communication compound F concept considered cue-messages cues discussed dream emotional Epimenides paradox episode existence experience explicit fantasy figure figure-ground folklore frequently funny gold tiles Gregory Bateson ground hierarchy human humor and play hypnosis implicit themes indicate interpersonal involved joke content joker levels of abstraction logical types matchboxes metacommunication metaphor mood Narcolepsy nature Necker cube ness nonverbal observed ongoing life process operation optical illusion paradox paralysis participants patient peck order persons phenomena picture play frame practical joke precipitated presented Psychiatry punch line purse question reality relationship result scious seems signals situation jokes slapstick smiling and laughing smiling and laughter social spontaneity statement stimulated story structure symbol tell theory things thought tickling tion ture uncon unconscious unconscious mind unreal victim weakness