Laughter Is a Mediator Between Logic and Mechanism to Bergson

When people start to resemble automatons, more so than they resemble a vital functional member of society, we witness one key example of how the mechanical is often encrusted upon the living. Laughter is a mediator between vitalism and mechanism to Bergson. To be a functioning member of society in touch with this vital impulse that drives us takes a certain amount of flexibility as a person.