Why food is tasteful

[FearGod]

Because it's not a 100% qualia. Taste is indeed a sense.

There are a variety of foods with different chemistry. The reason why we taste many different goods and bads is because our tongues detect the different chemical make-ups in different foods. We had to acquire a taste for each type of food we eat.

Just like sight. How we see color may be a qualia, but what is completely objective is that there are indeed different wavelengths of light. Like-wise, there are different foods.

And how the information that sent by the taste buds translated to a feeling of enjoyment and the question remains why such sense evolved.

 

[Riverwolf]

And how the information that sent by the taste buds translated to a feeling of enjoyment and the question remains why such sense evolved.

Survival. As has frequently been explained.

 

[Father Heathen]

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink; faith sustained by willful ignorance.

 

[AndromedaRXJ]

And how the information that sent by the taste buds translated to a feeling of enjoyment and the question remains why such sense evolved.

Mutations and natural selection. Any creature that doesn't enjoy something that's healthy is less likely to survive.

 

[FearGod]

Survival. As has frequently been explained.

shall i enjoy the taste of foods to survive.

 

[Riverwolf]

shall i enjoy the taste of foods to survive.

Are you a mesolithic hunter-gatherer?

 

[FearGod]

Are you a mesolithic hunter-gatherer?

Didn't they survive ?

 

[Riverwolf]

Didn't they survive ?

They did, because their tastebuds helped them judge whether food was good to eat or not.

 

[FearGod]

They did, because their tastebuds helped them judge whether food was good to eat or not.

And what enjoyment have to do with it ?

 

[Father Heathen]

And what enjoyment have to do with it ?

Pleasure is an incentive, displeasure is a deterrent.

 

[Riverwolf]

And what enjoyment have to do with it ?

What Father Heathen said.

Basically: if it's enjoyable, it's safe. If it's not enjoyable, it's poison.

 

[FearGod]

What Father Heathen said.

Basically: if it's enjoyable, it's safe. If it's not enjoyable, it's poison.

Absolutely wrong.

For example cocoa taste bitter like hell,but is amazingly so yummy.

 

[AndromedaRXJ]

Absolutely wrong.

For example cocoa taste bitter like hell,but is amazingly so yummy.

You just said something tastes bad but also tastes good?

 

[FearGod]

You just said something tastes bad but also tastes good?

Not only taste good,but i may love it more than my sweetheart.

 

[AndromedaRXJ]

Yeah, so how does that make this wrong?

Basically: if it's enjoyable, it's safe. If it's not enjoyable, it's poison.

 

[FearGod]

Yeah, so how does that make this wrong?

Because cocoa is unpleasant,so it should be avoided according to his view,but in fact cocoa is very healthy food.

 

[Riverwolf]

Absolutely wrong.

For example cocoa taste bitter like hell,but is amazingly so yummy.

I hate chocolate.

 

[Riverwolf]

Because cocoa is unpleasant,so it should be avoided according to his view,but in fact cocoa is very healthy food.

It's unpleasant for you, but not necessarily for everyone. I'm sure there's plenty of people who love the taste of raw cocoa... and this would likely have been the case for South American natives(since cocoa is native there).

Luis, you here?

 

[FearGod]

I hate chocolate.

To prove yourself correct.

 

[Riverwolf]

To prove yourself correct.

No, really. I hate chocolate. Unless it's mixed with peanut butter, it's always bitter to me, and even then, I prefer cane sugar, honey, or vanilla.