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Late snack? Here is your excuse!

AAAS announces that “if you are highly motivated and willing to work hard for what you want, your brain may be making it difficult for you to resist the urge” — and also a mind site explains that the need for reward (food, here) is effectively welded into our brains.

So now, in effect, you can (to some degree) explain that “my brain unequivocally demands this of me” — you could even get dramatic and go on in terms like “you wouldn’t want me to lose my mind, would you?”, but there are a few obvious risks along those paths, hearer’s boredom, humour and/or ill-will amongst them.

I did, however, get a little puzzled while researching this (BTW, the doctors involved in repairing my impact have told me — for the first and possibly last time ever — to keep up my weight) when I ran across an article imaginatively blaming ‘altruistic’ social behaviour — namely, potentially risky punishment — on evolutionary pressure. The direct connection between risky behaviour and neurological value is made... er... how? Anyway, Amanda Gardner can make it read kind of plausibly, which would take quite a determined and protracted effort from my literary side. Maybe that is all that’s needed?

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