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dredmorbius@joindiaspora.com

The Hard Problem of Breakfast

The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.”...

http://nautil.us/issue/88/love--sex/the-hard-problem-of-breakfast

Genius.

HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24124900

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