Re:Thoughts on the potato diet
by CuriouslyC on Monday July 11, 2022 @07:16PM
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Hormones are input signals to a neural network that produces a sensation of hunger as an output. The mapping of the network can obviate those inputs easily.
Re:Thoughts on the potato diet
by jsiaajdsdaa on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:58PM
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>not according to THE SCIENCE
sorry, dont care
Science, like reality, is that that doesn't stop existing when you close your eyes (or when you don't care).
did the sciences of phrenology, plum pudding model, God doesn't play dice, et al stop existing? I hope?
You seem to conflate science with individual theories (which can be abandoned, expanded, improved, or kept as a special case approximation, like Newtonian physics, and so on), and advances in knowledge.
You also seem to think that the prevailig theory at some era is intechangable with arbitrary personal opinions about how things are.
Yeah, just not according to science.
E.g. there's ghrelin, cholecystokinin and other "satiety signals".
Except if you mean "satiefy is a mental construct" the same way pain is a mental construct. In which case, in a Kantian way, everything is, including space and time.
>What your brain tells you to put in your stomach is almost entirely divorced from nutritional requirements for thriving and surviving.
(a) You'd be surprised.
(b) It only appears that way because we have diverged in a exteremely small span of time (evolutionary speaking) into completely different circumstances and food availability.
Otherwise, what the brain tells us is very much based on nutritional requirements for thriving and surviving.
It's just that in 2022 we have an endless supply of food we can just order or walk into a supermarket and buy, as opposed to food scarcity where we don't know if we will be able to find something to hunt tomorrow - like the last 100,000 of thousands of years before historical times (and millions of years considering our primate ancestors)...