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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The notion of "choice," and "free will" has largely been called into doubt by scientists.

Second, when (as the above-user mentioned) a corporate conglomerate has millions if not billions of dollars to spend on marketing teams, behavioral scientists, psychologists, etc., that tends to overwhelm our finite willpower and short-circuits our primal neural motivators.

Ultra-Processed Foods have tastes and caloric densities in abundance that simply is not found in the wild so easily except for honey guarded by angry bees and salt licks... What do you think that does to the brain whose evolutionary past is still firmly rooted in hunting-and-gathering?

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