In an experiment, doctors tried to stop a woman from having a seizure by stimulating her brain with electrodes. As they did this, she laughed and said it was because the people were so funny standing around like that. She had no idea when or how much stimulation is going on but didn't feel any pain at all. The question for us now is: How do we know when we laugh?

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