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Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

Is It Cake? How Our Brain Deciphers Materials

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·July 3, 2025
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WJW

There is a weird ability that everyone seems to have, which is that by looking at any random object around you, you can accurately predict how it would taste/feel if you put it in your mouth. Go on, try it right now by choosing a random object around you.

It obviously comes from babies putting almost anything in their mouth when they get the chance, but it's still amazing how well this holds up into adulthood.

makeitdouble

> babies putting almost anything in their mouth

I can't be the only one who's either been biting things out of convenience (holding a cable in your mouth where there's really nothing else left) or accidentaly ending up with uneatable things in their mouth (dirt, plastic, paper etc.)

kylecazar

gustatory imagination

webdevver

in the future, teslabot will mistakenly serve you a plate of wet sponges

dhosek

But it will de-activate a fraction of a second before the wet sponge enters your mouth so they can assert that the teslabot was not in autofeeding mode when the sponge went into your mouth.