The Outside Interview: Your Hungry Brain is Making You Fat
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The Disconnect Between Conscious and Non-Conscious Brain Regions
Cereal is a great example of that disconnect between essentially different circuits in your brain. So you have your conscious brain that says, this is not really consistent with my rational long-term goals for myself. And then you have your non-conscious circuits that are saying, oh man, cereal, it's time for cereal, I really like cereal. It's not something we control. We experience cravings and we can choose to act or not act on them, but we don't control whether or not we experience them. There's something that arises from these non-conscious brain regions and they can be very difficult as you've experienced to control.
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