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 |
| Charles Young | Columbia A | Catholic | 48 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia | North Carolina B | 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 |
| Joel Miles | Minnesota A | Washington A | 77 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Hull | Berkeley C | Berkeley D | 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 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago D | 91 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UC Santa Barbara | 91 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Bowdoin A | 91 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 92 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale | Dartmouth B | 92 | -5 |
| Orion Keller | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina B | 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 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech D | 116 | 10 |
| Elizabeth Bowling | Indiana B | Indiana C | 116 | -5 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | Montpellier | 121 | 10 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD A | UC Irvine | 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 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Dartmouth A | 124 | 0 |
| Micah Lauzon | Dartmouth B | Yale | 124 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD C | Arizona State | 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 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Binghamton A | 124 | 0 |
| Andrew Miller | Binghamton A | RIT | 124 | 0 |
| Robert Chen | Rochester | Cornell A | 124 | 0 |
| Ethan Bosita | Stanford B | Stanford A | 138 | 10 |