Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA07233 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:42:43 GMT Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020110063408.01d86e90@pop.abs.adelphia.net> X-Sender: jakemaier@pop.abs.adelphia.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:37:59 -0500 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Joachim Maier <jakemaier@adelphia.net> Subject: RE: playing at suicide In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F139fEbMOnvV1x0000b921@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
how do you distinguish between hunger and appetite?
Maybe you are more sensitive, but I still would say that a person with
Alzheimer might have trouble to know
I can remember as a young child going to my mother complaining about a
belly ache and she told me to eat something.
I had no appetite but my stomach was empty. She knew I did not.
Joachim
At 11:09 PM 1/9/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 22:14:02 -0500
>>
>>I "know" when I'm hungry only because I know when I last ate. The mother
>>who did not see her baby for 2 days will not know right away whether the
>>baby is hungry, needs some attention, or fresh diapers. She will find out
>>by trial and error.
>>I only will know that there is still water in the teapot and a heat source
>>under it when it whistles, I will not know whether the teapot wants or
>>needs to be poured. Maybe an musician wants to use it as an instrument in a
>>teapot composition.
>>I will not know whether I have a stomach ache because I am hungry or be
>>cause I have a virus, unless I know when I last ate, It very likely will
>>not feel different.
>>Joachim
>
>Maybe I'm just too sensitive for my own good, but my stomach sends me lots
>of signals when I'm hungry. My brain also sends a few, such a light
>headedness and an over reaction to food smells. I don't think I've ever
>mistaken flu for hunger. But there's no reason why we should all be the
>same, is there? Some mothers may also be insensitive to what their baby
>wants, but I've known quite a few who weren't.
>
>Babies are just learning to communicate and not every attempt is
>successful. That's why they working on it. The tools they develop in
>infancy will stick with them for the rest of their lives and continue to
>be added to until the day they die.
>
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