saliva is mostly water, and that's always in your mouth. having an everpresent yum-signal seems evolutionarily pointless
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Thanks, not sure how I forgot about this argument
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When I'm really thirsty water tastes amazing. It becomes neutral only when I'm hydrated. If it were hard to stop binging on water the way it's hard to stop eating, say, ice cream, there would be a serious risk of gluttony-induced hyponatremia.
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some people do strongly dislike the taste of water, but it's difficult to tell if this is the cause or effect of them mostly drinking non-waters.
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I wonder if that’s a genetic mutation affecting their taste receptors. Like many fields, philosophy would benefit from an industrial-scale clone farm
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it's not neutral tasting tho
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Yeah for most of the world it tastes like mud. Unless you were lucky enough to have evolved near a clear mountain stream.
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We smell soil bacteria near streams, not water itself. "amygdala responds strongly to both pleasant and unpleasant smells (in other words, smells that elicit some sort of emotional response) but not to neutral smells." (Still trying to find these studies) http://wiki.csisdmz.ul.ie/wiki/The_Amygdala_and_Smell …
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(that link suggests that yes, scent memory and by association, taste, may be alternate encodings of the same quale as biased by emotional affect and associated cultural experiences tied to past words)
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