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..that can also take into account other things including current physiological states and arrive at a unique 'wanting' decision for our state at that moment.

How 'smart' is this dynamic mechanism, what can it sense, and can it be hijacked or eclipsed by e.g. ultra processed hyper palatable foods?
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
vit D deficiency he stopped going back to the cod liver oil. How the hell did he 'know'?

Well, the theory of incentive salience suggests that over time we learn to associate certain cues with certain rewards BUT we don't just have a static 'lookup table' from learning, we have a dynamic mechanism..
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
About a century or so back they did tests on infants where the kids were given an array of foods each day and allowed to self select what they ate. One infant kept going back to the cod liver oil. That kid had rickets, but once he'd glugged enough oil to resolve his ..
November 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
6502 assembly language 😊
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 AM