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 |
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Southern Connecticut State | 52 | 10 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Chicago C | 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 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | NYU B | 75 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee 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 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan B | 91 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 91 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 91 | -5 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 91 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 92 | -5 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 92 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 92 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell C | 93 | -5 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Alabama B | 93 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin B | 113 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UCSD 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 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan C | Ohio State B | 124 | 0 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan C | 124 | 0 |
| Maddie Baldwin | Michigan State | Ohio State C | 124 | 0 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State C | Michigan State | 124 | 0 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brandeis B | 124 | 0 |
| Sam Kemeny | Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 124 | 0 |
| Elliott Gomes | Dartmouth A | Harvard B | 124 | 0 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 124 | 0 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth B | Yale | 124 | 0 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UC Irvine | 124 | 0 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | James Madison A | 124 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Liberty A | 124 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | North Carolina A | Liberty B | 124 | 0 |
| Emily Snider | Liberty B | North Carolina A | 124 | 0 |
| Fern Fang | VCU | North Carolina C | 124 | 0 |
| Jeffery Austin | North Carolina C | VCU | 124 | 0 |
| Gabriel Dodds | Liberty C | Wake Forest | 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 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick B | Manchester | 124 | 0 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Warwick 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 |
| Sim Spurrier | Swarthmore | Maryland B | 124 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton A | 124 | 0 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | RIT | 124 | 0 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell A | 124 | 0 |
| William Henley | Illinois C | Purdue B | 124 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton College | 124 | 0 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Iowa State | 124 | 0 |
| Annika Larson | Claremont | Missouri A | 124 | 0 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Claremont | 124 | 0 |
| Kanyon Beck | Murray State A | Texas B | 124 | 0 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Murray State A | 124 | 0 |
| Roy Yang | WashU B | Louisville A | 124 | 0 |
| Bonham Buchannon | Louisville A | WashU B | 124 | 0 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississipi State | 124 | 10 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Stanford A | 138 | 10 |