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 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■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 89.33 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 106.00 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 80.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 0% | 93.40 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 63% | 0% | 13% | 78.60 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 85.33 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 83.50 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 92.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 95.60 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 0% | 89.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 7 | 71% | 0% | 0% | 75.40 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 50% | 52.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Illinois B | 40 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | North Carolina B | 48 | 10 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Catholic | 48 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago C | 52 | 10 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 52 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton B | 52 | 10 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 53 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Columbia B | 54 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Stanford B | 66 | -5 |
| Anh Khoa Tran | Central Florida A | Florida C | 69 | 10 |
| Kevin Zheng | Michigan A | Pittsburgh | 69 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Warwick A | 69 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Sewanee | 70 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee B | 75 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | NYU B | 75 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 77 | 10 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 77 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | NC State A | 79 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cardiff | 79 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Purdue A | 86 | 10 |
| Mattias Ehatamm | Maryland A | NYU C | 87 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 89 | 10 |
| Carson Kessler | Washington B | Missouri B | 90 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 91 | -5 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 91 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 91 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 91 | 10 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 92 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 92 | -5 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 92 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama B | 93 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell C | 93 | -5 |
| Emmanuel Alayande | Florida B | Florida A | 94 | 10 |
| Dmitri Anh-Minh Tran | UC Santa Barbara | UCLA B | 99 | 10 |
| Jackie Xu | Cornell A | Rochester | 99 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCSD B | 113 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin B | 113 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland C | Rutgers B | 113 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Indiana C | 116 | -5 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 116 | 10 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Montpellier | 121 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | Arizona State | 124 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UC Irvine | 124 | 0 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 124 | 0 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 124 | 0 |
| Maddie Baldwin | Michigan State | Ohio State C | 124 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 124 | 0 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Liberty A | 124 | 10 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina C | VCU | 124 | 0 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 124 | 0 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | James Madison A | 124 | 10 |
| Fern Fang | VCU | North Carolina C | 124 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 124 | 0 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | North Carolina A | 124 | 0 |
| Matthew Vidal | Northwestern D | Chicago E | 124 | 0 |
| John Augustyn | Notre Dame B | Northwestern C | 124 | 0 |
| Aditya Rajesh | Northwestern C | Notre Dame B | 124 | 0 |
| William Henley | Illinois C | Purdue B | 124 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 124 | 0 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 124 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard B | 124 | 0 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth B | Yale | 124 | 0 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 124 | 0 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton College | 124 | 0 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 124 | 0 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Iowa State | 124 | 0 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont | Missouri A | 124 | 0 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Murray State A | 124 | 0 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 124 | 0 |
| Bonham Buchannon | Louisville A | WashU B | 124 | 0 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | Louisville A | 124 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississipi State | 124 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick B | Manchester | 124 | 0 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick B | 124 | 0 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore | Maryland B | 124 | 0 |
| Aiden Dartley | Rutgers A | Johns Hopkins A | 124 | 0 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 124 | 0 |
| Kevin Liu | Maryland B | Swarthmore | 124 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton A | 124 | 0 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell A | 124 | 0 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | RIT | 124 | 0 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Stanford A | 138 | 10 |