In laughter: an essay on the meaning of the comic, philosopher henri bergson writes, "several have defined man as ‘an animal which laughs.’ they might equally as well have defined him as an animal which is laughed at; for if any other animal, or some lifeless object, produces the same effect, it is always because of some resemblance to man, or the stamp he gives it or the use he puts it to." does "me talk pretty one day" more effectively present people as creatures who laugh or are laughed at?

Taking into account the statement above: "In Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, philosopher Henri Bergson writes, "Several have defined man as ‘an animal which laughs.’ They might equally as well have defined him as an animal which is laughed at; for if any other animal, or some lifeless object, produces the same effect, it is always because of some resemblance to man, or the stamp he gives it or the use he puts it to." Does "Me Talk Pretty One Day" more effectively present people as creatures who laugh or are laughed at?"

The answer is: both, because the humans laugh and they laugh at others and it depending of what we do. An example is the quote from the paragraph 4 "I realized, while laughing, that I myself did not know the alphabet. "the author laughs at himself showing him being laughed at and laugh."

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the support that the author, uses in the article facing our fears is a): a definition of the part of the brain called the amygdala.

he takes neuroscientist joseph ledoux's words by telling that by falling to distinguish between evolutionary old systems located in the amygdala and newer systems, centered in the prefrontal cortex, doctors have conflated non conscious threat circuits in the brain with circuits that underlie the conscious experience of fear. that, the author says, "leads ledoux to the jarring conclusion that the amygdala, a decades-old centerpiece of the brain's fear circuit, does not underlie the conscious feeling of fear".

despite this, the author points out in the article that that is a controversial notion and that evidence, in animal and humans, supports the idea that core emotions can exist outside of conscious awareness.