Round 4: Tossup 13

This thinker stated that when humans make fun of animals, it is often because we recognize some human behavior in them. This thinker distinguished between sensori-motor “habit-memory” and unconscious “pure-memory.” This thinker argues that the comic is a strictly human phenomenon in the first notable philosophical work on humor, the 1900 book Laughter. This thinker proposed a hypothetical reasoning for organism development as a creative impulse that drives life forward. In a debate with a scientist, this thinker argued against removing the human experience aspect from time; that debate with Albert Einstein came (10[1])after this thinker published Duration and Simultaneity. For 10 points, name this French intuitionist philosopher who wrote Time and Free Will and outlined the “élan vital” in his book Creative Evolution. ■END■ (0[2])

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