I have lowered my prior for these kinds of explanations being correct; maybe it’s the sudden surge of nutrients that does something to the memory? Who knows, but it reads like evopsych-inspired version of the narrative fallacy. If it works empirically, great, if it doesn’t I’m not going to ask “why did my brain not react as if being saved from starvation”?
See also this post.
I have lowered my prior for these kinds of explanations being correct; maybe it’s the sudden surge of nutrients that does something to the memory? Who knows, but it reads like evopsych-inspired version of the narrative fallacy. If it works empirically, great, if it doesn’t I’m not going to ask “why did my brain not react as if being saved from starvation”?
See also that post.