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It's not that they think that and then consciously act on the decision, just that it's the _reason_ they do it. Much like how a certain type of person will ver

• rp1 5y ago
  With music, you can both verify that a person liked the music as a teenager, and present that person with other music sharing the same qualities to see if they like it enough. This provides empirical evidence regarding this theory on their musical preferences. Such evidence is missing when trying to understand why someone has a “fake tic”.
  • katmannthree 5y ago
    It sounds like they're developing real tics because of subconscious influences from the tic-tacs, real fake tics which are more or less the same as real real tics just brought on for different reasons. And regarding the music analogy: it's not about the person liking just the music from their formative years, it's that the music they're exposed to during those years has an outsized effect on their preferences going forward. If they pass an intuition check they'll eventually realize the _reason_ why they care so much about the specific technical details they do isn't because that music is inherently and objectively better, and if not then they'll spend the rest of their life complaining about how they just don't make 'em like that anymore.