I was listening to a podcast the other day and the guy was eating a tasty cookie and said, 'Well if aliens come, we can present these cookies to them, since this is the pinnacle of what we have created' and I shouted 'YOU IDIOT.' Because they won't have the same taste mechanisms or biological response to the same compounds that make things taste good to us due to our particular evolutionary history.
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I was listening to a podcast the other day and the guy was eating a tasty cookie and said, 'Well if aliens come, we can present these cookies to them, since this is the pinnacle of what we have created' and I shouted 'YOU IDIOT.' Because they won't have the same taste mechanisms or biological response to the same compounds that make things taste good to us due to our particular evolutionary history.