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The following quote from the author: "Our brains behave like monkeys and it can be proven that most of our lives are about "what am I going to have for lunch?".

• rebootthesystem 12y ago
  > has this been proved ? Yes! > would be very interested to know who proved this and how they went about doing it. Well. There's this thing you do. It only takes a few minutes. Then you wait about nine months. At that point you start collecting data. The first year or two are somewhat inconclusive. The data (and the subject) can be very noisy. By the time you've made observations and collected data for about eight years the conclusion is inescapable: Monkeys. According to my observations across three of these experiments I would add that monkeys might sometimes have an edge over some of the crap we pull.
• treehau5 12y ago
  > Our brains behave like monkeys and it can be proven that most of our lives are about "what am I going to have for lunch? Keyword being most, however this primitive impulse, like many primitive impulses such as wanting to strangle your boss when they make you upset, can be overcome with cognitive reappraisal. "I am not really that hungry, and I could even make it an entire day without eating and still survive" or "I don't really want to kill her, I would lose my job and go to prison"
• delluminatus 12y ago
  That's impossible to prove because it has no concrete meaning -- there is no provable understanding of "what life is about", much less a provable way to actually answer that implicit question, "What is life about?"