Brain Food: A Taste for Saltwater
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Brain Food: A Taste for Saltwater
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Visakan Veerasamyx.comNo doubt the taste system is involved in feeding us nutrients to sustain our lives - we're attracted to the nutrients we need and we're deterred from the ones we don't. Even if your brain doesn't get stimulated by water, certain parts of your brain get the entire behavioral stimulus.
Andrew Huberman • Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
At times, when a cephalopod is resting, its skin will flow through color and textural displays that appear unconscious—as if the electrochemical flux of its thoughts were projected onto its surface. In this state it is truly like a mind floating, unsheathed by flesh, in the open ocean. —Dr. Ha Nguyen, How Oceans Think