[FRIAM] What makes you who you are?

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It all depends on what you mean by "preparing to eat":

https://physicianschoice.com/blogs/blog/ghrelin-and-leptin

On 4/28/21 11:32 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> I dunno... there are plenty of times I feel hunger and am neither
> preparing to eat, nor do I prepare to eat because I'm hungry.   Other
> times, I might find myself eating out of social obligation, idle
> boredom, habit.    I'm not claiming that hunger and eating are
> unrelated, but I find it a bit much to collapse one into the other.
> 
> Do grazing animals (maybe baleen whales in the extreme?) eat because
> they are hungry?   I've had dogs who appear to be hungry all the time,
> or at least anytime they are in the presence of food, or a human who
> might respond to their begging by getting them some food.  
> 
> On 4/28/21 11:28 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
>> Yes, you do. Interoceptive hunger *is* observing yourself preparing to eat. The question is, at what *order* of organization (2nd? 10th? Nth? order) does "I" kick in?
>>
>> On 4/28/21 10:19 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>>>  I do not infer that I'm hungry by observing that I am preparing to eat.  As you and I have discussed many times.


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