in nature, laughter is a sound of nature, but it is overlooked because unnatural things usually prompt it. It is even more in nature than art for it is completely uncontrived and unintended. The theoretical man is dedicated to the search for truth rather than truth itself. Truth is in illusion, but the theoretical denies illusion as a key to reality and instead wants to destroy the energy of illusion. Laughter is an illusion in a way, for no one but the laugh-er knows what is truly funny, and often she does not even know. It is a code to the primordial nature within us. If there are no words, reality cannot be superficial. When laughter is pure it is a connection between consciousness and unspoken thought because it is a pure reaction to a wordless thought. With laughter, everything disappears and at the same time everything materializes as what it truly is.When one is consumed by laughter, everything she knows, feels and believes is sensible and complete. Laughter is an “affirmation of the moment,” our deliberate being dissolves in the true reality and consciousness of laughter, allowing our innate Being to exude. Kimmel says that the eternal may be understood as the absolute fullness of the moment itself … “it is less easy to decide, and perhaps as pointless to try to determine, what it is we are released into through laughter, other than into the moment, which complete in itself and however briefly, opens into eternity” (Kimmel). Laughter brings us into the convergence of reality and consciousness, a state that cannot be reached by either aspect alone; only in their synergy is the moment revealed through laughter. Nietzsche believes that consciousness as we know it is based on communication, thus it is not true consciousness. This pseudo-consciousness fools us into the belief that we are in reality when we act. Yes, Heidegger believes that to simply be is to Be, but he also believes that Bein...
