tons of studies link obesity and poor oral hygiene, but none seem to dive much into a causal model oral bacteria have enormous incentives to produce compounds that stimulate your appetite for high glycemic index carbohydrates do we think they *can't* evolve to mind control you
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maybe you think this sounds ridiculous but is that what you really think, or is it what a few million little stowaways want you to think
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oh, right i forgot that it's extremely important that we continually sacrifice the accuracy of our models of what's happening on the altar of our idea that we have "single" "minds" that are "making" "decisions" with their "willpower" hahaha awesome
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wait, do most people not think of their sensory urges at least as being separate from their decision-making selves
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i dunno if i'd even encourage them to, at least if they have a family history of schizophrenia but the usual thing at least seems to be those sensory urges arising within a self with well-defined, limited interfaces with the not-self
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smh at anyone who hasn't figured out that sensory desires can be hacked at will by the self or anyone else the self lets do it
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perfectly fine for everybody to figure that out as long as one's comfortable deploying a little survivorship bias
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