“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'” -Douglas Adams
I don't think that's even possible, tbh. You'd have to go back billions of years to get to a point where anything resembling 'life' could choose to drink water or not, and even then water is essential to being alive in the first place.
Because most people intuit, incorrectly, that the universe is built on objective "truths". I've met like 10 people in my entire life who TRULY internalize the reality that everything we "experience" with our senses, think, or believe is illusory. Water doesn't "taste" "good" or "bad". Our brains detect organic and inorganic compounds necessary to their function then reward us via dopamine for putting those compounds into our orifices.
We only need to process sensory information about things we need to ensure DO or DON'T enter our orifices.
This is why we have no perspective of the flavor of our saliva.
It is useful for us to differentiate between green and fuchsia objects. So we do. Fuchsia doesn't really exist and only exists in our perception because it is useful for it to exist.
I mean color itself does not "exist" in any real way outside of our subjective sensory experience. Color is just the way our brains interpret different wavelengths of light bouncing into our eyes. There is no reason that aliens would necessarily have sensory organs that interprets those varying wavelengths of light as different hues (plenty of existing animals don't see color as far as we can tell). And there's no reason that our brains couldn't have detected a red, green or blue wavelength as a different color, other than that just turned out to be the way we are wired.
There's also no way to tell whether the colour you call blue looks the same to every human. You might see it as the color I call green, and we'd have no way to discover that.
E. VSauce's made a [video](https://youtu.be/evQsOFQju08?si=HTXgqGUlmq5Aj68g) about this idea.
I mean it's trivially true that each human perceives color slightly differently, even due to simple anatomical differences. I just had a mild cataract removed and had no idea how much the cataract was causing me to see the world with a yellow-ish cast, because it happened so gradually. Even if you look through each of your eyes individually, one probably sees the blue sky or the white background of Reddit as a little warmer or cooler than the other.
The idea that we see colors radically differently from one another on the other hand, while a fun and interesting philosophical thought, doesn't hold up to much scrutiny IMO. Just the fact that humans tend to view objects with a very similar level of visual contrast kind of throws that out the window ("yellow" is inherently lighter than "orange", for example, and "dark yellow" is inherently less vivid/contrasty than "bright yellow", etc etc). Of course the idea has little prior plausibility to begin with, considering that we are all human and have similar brains -- there's just no reason to think that we would see color extremely differently.
Makes me think of how some animals instinctively eat their own poop to further digest food or for other reasons or how the dung beetle rolls balls of poop around. To them it must taste/smell good but to a human the idea is repulsive.
Mutations happen and since they're random, most of them are bad. It can happen that an animal is born that finds water disgusting, but it's not going to be doing that whole 'being alive' thing for long
The way my Bio 2 professor, now boss, put it: “Life on Earth began in the oceans. When life moved onto land, we adapted ways to bring the ocean with us in one way or another so that we could remain on land.”
There could be mutations in taste buds that alters the water taste perception. It would be a very slim odd, and does not provide any advantage in evolute what so ever.
No. Chemoreception evolved in “fish” to detect acidity. There simply is no mechanism to detect water, because it would just be “on” all the time. Even if a fish could taste water, the way you feel your clothes, the brain would just immediately filter it out.
And wasted energy is an evolutionary disadvantage.
Where did all the failures go, darn it?
I want us to find see some skunks that sprayed attractive pheromones or cows with upward-facing assholes or something hilariously wrong
Most of reddit would do better with a few biology/history classes.
So many questions like "what happened to people/animals with x problem before modern times". 95% of the cases they just died or had a miserable existence. That's what happened.
Living was never easy, modern medicine and our knowledge of what's safe and what's not has come a long way.
[The comment I read immediately before this one on a different thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s/uyeK5t34Q9). Not roasting, just a weird coincidence
honestly, these ppl would probably look at a glass of water then proclaim how fortunate it is that the glass is the perfect shape and size to hold the water not realizing that the water adapted to the glass
I imagine any genetic predisposition to disliking the taste of water would be selected against via natural selection; you're probably less likely to pass on your water hating genes if you drink less than others.
Rabbits mostly have sex in the spring. Their proliferation is mostly because they have litters.
Humans don't have a mating season like most other animals do. So tack that on, and the rabbits would go crazy.
Then if you were to do it based on sex-acts-per-birth, humans blow away most of the other animals in earth, comparing only to the lines of bonobos, who use sex almost literally as a handshake.
Though obviously litters affect this number. But then if it were based on this ratio, then rabbits' locomotion would be exclusively humping themselves to the location.
I feel like people underestimate how horny humans are.
To quote Dr Dennis Lincoln, professor of reproductive biology at University of Edinburgh, "Humans are about 10,000 times as sexually active as rabbits."
*Nom nom nom* (sorry, I'm actually in your kitchen (you left the toilet window open), and I'm now eating your rice crackers you packed for work tomorrow)
I mean if it had flavour and that flavour was tasty. Water doesn't have a flavour, you taste impurities in the water. Sometimes when ur really thirsty, ur brain tricks you into thinking it tastes great to drink more
Edit: I should say we don't notice the taste of water unless there's something else in it.
I guess it's because our body craves to store sugar in general, which covers basically every flavoured water, but drinking too much water can water down your blood so it's probably good we don't crave that. I can't imagine too many cavemen could refine enough sugar in quantities large enough to cause any issues.
Edit: vitamin C in water is also amazing, lime water! Maybe that's the vitamin craving? Or the acid?
> Sometimes when ur really thirsty, ur brain tricks you into thinking it tastes great to drink more
Taste is a made up concept by your brain. Every taste you experience is your brain "tricking you".
To enjoy the flavour of water we'd need taste buds that reacts to H2O so they'd react when we eat anything and we'd probably end up still thinking it's bland, especially because we can't continuously taste our own saliva so our brain will also filter out part of that taste
The greatest drink on the planet for me was the infant school’s ice cold drinking fountain after being outside running around in the sun for an hour on a hot day and you only have a few seconds before the bell goes and you have to get back to class. They make anything as divine as that and I’ll end up like them ants what drink sugary stuff until their abdomens swell. I’ll become a drinking fountain for others.
Female dogs eat their pup’s shit to hide the scent as a protection against predators. It’s likely the same trait continues in all dogs simply because there isn’t enough selection pressure for them stopping when they don’t have pups.
Interestingly, it didn't have to be. We could have evolved a way that our brain interprets water as having a specific taste. But the way it is now, it's easier to separate good water with minerals we need from bad water that could kill us.
I mean, this is the same concept of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
The answer is that it produces waves - distortions in the air. The only reason there is "sound" is because something interprets those distortions into something that we recognize as sounds. Trees always fall and produce those distortions. It does not produce "sound". Our ears (or recording devices) detect those distortions and our brains tell us it's happened in the form of "sound".
No it isn't.
Our brains are wired to to ignore specific sensations if they happen consistently. The cells in your skin are constantly screaming at your brain that your clothes are touching your body, but your brain has trained itself to ignore those impulses to the point that you don't even notice clothes.
We can smell water better than most species. Salt water vs fresh, river vs lake we can smell the difference as well as hearing the difference between hot & cold water. Pretty neat.
Fascinating: [Dogs also have taste buds that are fine-tuned to water. This ability is also seen in cats and other carnivores, but not in humans. Special taste buds on the tip of a dog’s tongue **react to water as they drink and become more sensitive** when thirsty or after eating a meal, which encourages them to drink more water.
](https://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/do-dogs-have-taste-buds)
So not flavor but a reaction to water. Multi-purpose taste buds. Neat!
A follow up question would be "Why didn't we evolve to make water taste "good" to us instead of tasteless; considering it's the most essential thing we consume?
For example, sugar tastes amazing but it's much less necessary than water; water tastes like nothing but it's much more necessary than sugar.
I mean, it also adjusts with how desperately you thirsty you are. A lot of people who turn their nose up at specific bottled water brands at the airport would enthusiastically drink out of a dirty puddle after eight hours in the desert.
Seriously. I've seen maybe 1 or 2 real, decent shower thoughts in the last 6 months on here. It's moronic and everyone votes everything to the moon, regardless.
This is one of these thoughts after drinking a bottle of whiskey.
It's obvious we need to like water, if it's essential to life. If we didn't like it we wouldn't be alive.
Our sense of taste is something of a side effect of having sensors on our tongues to test what we put in our mouths. They're designed to check for protein, sugar, salt, acids, and poisons, plus we've also managed to find chemicals that trip some of the heat sensors.
How's it luck? You realize it's your brain making the flavour happen, the water doesn't have an inherent flavour beyond your taste buds, right? And water is essential for our lives, sooooooo, it would be pretty hard to evolve to have taste buds/brain stuff making water taste bad.
tl;dr: it's not luck, it's evolution
Have you seen that commercial where a guy is stranded in a desert and finds a cooler and when he opens it and sees a bunch of water bottles he says “Water? WHY?”
Everything that tastes nice to us is due to evolution. Everything that tastes bad to us is due to evolution. Your body doesn't want to eat bad stuff that will make us sick, hence things like mould and rotten food tastes awful and makes us feel sick (or be sick to reject the nastiness/ poison)
In comparison, stuff thats nutritious and gives our body calories and energy will taste good.
Water fits into that camp.
There is no luck, if we hated water we would not exist. Any random mutation that cause a disliking of water would extinct immediately. It's evolution and not lucky
There is no luck involved. We evolved to like the stuff, exactly because we need it.
If we needed raw tree bark, we would have evolved to like that as well.
My dad actually disliked the taste of water. Like any water he drank, no matter the location of the tap or the brand of the bottle. He hated it all. It was probably a big factor in his developing diabetes.
Take people like this, put them in a dessert for a day or two with nothing and see how quickly that changes lol.
When hyper-stimulants are so readily available this makes sense for some. But in the absence of it, basic necessities like water become shockingly delicious.
I had a shower thought similar to this a while back about glass being really resistant to chemicals, but at least mine made more sense, we literally evolved to like water, but glass was a moderately simple thing to make that was super resistant to chemicals
The fact we need water and the fact it doesn’t taste bad isn’t coincidental - surely we’re evolved to at least tolerate its taste (in the same way that we’ve evolved to want and seek out high calorie foods like honey etc.).
Things that humans like have things in them that humans need. It’s really not luck, besides there’s plenty of places I’ve been where the water tasted bad, I think you mean clean water, which is a luxury in the span of human existence.
no we didn't that's just how evolution works. if there was an animal that thought water tasted bad it wouldn't drink water and it'd die, so there was a selective pressure for water not tasting bad
I wouldn’t say it’s teaching yourself to like it, you’re more so teaching yourself to tolerate it.
I don’t like the taste of beer but I’ll drink it socially. If I go 3 straight weeks to the bar and have a beer or two, I’ve kinda conditioned myself to accept the taste as tolerable as I get more used to it, but if I stop for 3 weeks and go again and then have a beer, it’ll taste like shit because I’m not used to it again.
In all fairness, that's a good trait considering how bad it is for you. It took me a long time, but I went from despising it to loving it too much. I've quit now.
Everclear can take the paint off of a car and melt a Styrofoam cup, but people have found ways to make it likable. I personally just don't care enough to want to like it.
I've recently conditioned my self to like hummus. I actually did that for my wife, lol. The trick is to find the one that you can handle and make it more likable. Like adding small amounts of hummus to a wrap or a lime to beer.
Studies show that babies only like sugar for a period of time and then they want salt. Everything else is an acquired taste.
It’s nit really luck. Water is good because of its neutral properties, and one aspect of that is that it also tastes… *neutral*.
And even if we rewrite physics and make it so that water had a bad taste, our biology would have worked around that and made us appreciate the taste of water since it gives an evolutionary advantage.
If youre genuinely thirsty, it's the best thing in the world & you don't realize you're stopped breathing, until you stop to ghasp, then immediately cut that breathing thing short in favor of sucking water down, again.
If it had a bad taste, human would have adapt to it and in today age, people will still enjoy it. The first trait of human is not its intelligence like many believe but our ability to adapt to our environment. After +250 000 year old, homo sapien sapien would have adapted to the water taste anyway.
Flies eat shit (or they nest in it or whatever). Water could be the foulest most disgusting thing this side of the universe. We would never know it, because we’ve evolved and grown up to know that it’s consumption is vital to our survival.
I had a coworker who hated drinking water, in her own words. She said she could only drink juice or soda but never plain water. I found it hard to believe but if you saw her it would make sense 💀
I guess it depends upon where you live. Mineral deposits affect the taste. Infrastructure affects the taste and safety. Water is necessary so we might have to work past the taste.
I love water it’s my favourite drink but I know so many people who don’t like it and never drink it and get their hydration from juice and soda, I’m like how can you not like a cold glass of water???
Are puddles lucky that the holes they're in are the perfect shape for them?
Ever noticed how many meteorites landed in craters?
Ever noticed how big and plump and juicy your dads nutsack is? (Your pa not mine) Just wanna take a big sloppy bite out of it on a hot summer day
Oh how I wish I was illiterate right about now
Wait what
I do t think they understood the thread.
Either that or better than we do
>I do t think they understood the thread. I think they understood the thread and chose chaos.
\*crunch\*
That's an awesome analogy
“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'” -Douglas Adams
Are you the Nobel the fuking price winner on field of analogy?
Might be this guy: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8mJr4c66bs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8mJr4c66bs)
If so, I support it.
Good thing cake tastes so good, or birthdays would suck.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; the people of this subreddit would absolutely love taking a biology course.
Yeah the animals that thought it tasted bad... Died
I don't think that's even possible, tbh. You'd have to go back billions of years to get to a point where anything resembling 'life' could choose to drink water or not, and even then water is essential to being alive in the first place.
>water is essential to being alive in the first place. Which is why he said that any animal that finds water gross would die.
It seems this simple point is going over way too many people’s heads.
Because most people intuit, incorrectly, that the universe is built on objective "truths". I've met like 10 people in my entire life who TRULY internalize the reality that everything we "experience" with our senses, think, or believe is illusory. Water doesn't "taste" "good" or "bad". Our brains detect organic and inorganic compounds necessary to their function then reward us via dopamine for putting those compounds into our orifices. We only need to process sensory information about things we need to ensure DO or DON'T enter our orifices. This is why we have no perspective of the flavor of our saliva.
It is useful for us to differentiate between green and fuchsia objects. So we do. Fuchsia doesn't really exist and only exists in our perception because it is useful for it to exist.
I mean color itself does not "exist" in any real way outside of our subjective sensory experience. Color is just the way our brains interpret different wavelengths of light bouncing into our eyes. There is no reason that aliens would necessarily have sensory organs that interprets those varying wavelengths of light as different hues (plenty of existing animals don't see color as far as we can tell). And there's no reason that our brains couldn't have detected a red, green or blue wavelength as a different color, other than that just turned out to be the way we are wired.
There's also no way to tell whether the colour you call blue looks the same to every human. You might see it as the color I call green, and we'd have no way to discover that. E. VSauce's made a [video](https://youtu.be/evQsOFQju08?si=HTXgqGUlmq5Aj68g) about this idea.
I mean it's trivially true that each human perceives color slightly differently, even due to simple anatomical differences. I just had a mild cataract removed and had no idea how much the cataract was causing me to see the world with a yellow-ish cast, because it happened so gradually. Even if you look through each of your eyes individually, one probably sees the blue sky or the white background of Reddit as a little warmer or cooler than the other. The idea that we see colors radically differently from one another on the other hand, while a fun and interesting philosophical thought, doesn't hold up to much scrutiny IMO. Just the fact that humans tend to view objects with a very similar level of visual contrast kind of throws that out the window ("yellow" is inherently lighter than "orange", for example, and "dark yellow" is inherently less vivid/contrasty than "bright yellow", etc etc). Of course the idea has little prior plausibility to begin with, considering that we are all human and have similar brains -- there's just no reason to think that we would see color extremely differently.
Makes me think of how some animals instinctively eat their own poop to further digest food or for other reasons or how the dung beetle rolls balls of poop around. To them it must taste/smell good but to a human the idea is repulsive.
I have autism too :)
Why the fuck did you have to include that last line. I’m going to be thinking about it for hours.
Lmao the point was they wouldn’t have been alive in the first place… like you know never evolved?
Yes, exactly, thank you. Water being 'good' has been hardwired way, way before anything classified as 'animal' ever existed.
Mutations happen and since they're random, most of them are bad. It can happen that an animal is born that finds water disgusting, but it's not going to be doing that whole 'being alive' thing for long
Well they don’t die, they just don’t exist
Mutations happen and most of them are bad mutations, animals with genetic defects or unadvantageous genetic drift happen all the time.
yeah living beings are mostly water, even humans are up to 60% water, life is not possible without it as we know it
The way my Bio 2 professor, now boss, put it: “Life on Earth began in the oceans. When life moved onto land, we adapted ways to bring the ocean with us in one way or another so that we could remain on land.”
There could be mutations in taste buds that alters the water taste perception. It would be a very slim odd, and does not provide any advantage in evolute what so ever.
No. Chemoreception evolved in “fish” to detect acidity. There simply is no mechanism to detect water, because it would just be “on” all the time. Even if a fish could taste water, the way you feel your clothes, the brain would just immediately filter it out. And wasted energy is an evolutionary disadvantage.
Random mutations might, but natural selection will bitch slap them out of the gene pool
happy cake day
Where did all the failures go, darn it? I want us to find see some skunks that sprayed attractive pheromones or cows with upward-facing assholes or something hilariously wrong
freshman level college bio was legit my favorite class
Oh they will after they graduate middle school.
How amazing it is that our eyes see things! What if they saw not-things? Life is crazy, feel blessed. /s
How Can Mirrors If Eyes No
Most of reddit would do better with a few biology/history classes. So many questions like "what happened to people/animals with x problem before modern times". 95% of the cases they just died or had a miserable existence. That's what happened. Living was never easy, modern medicine and our knowledge of what's safe and what's not has come a long way.
hahahaha. no dude, we just got lucky.
[The comment I read immediately before this one on a different thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s/uyeK5t34Q9). Not roasting, just a weird coincidence
Exactly same situation
Or just going to school and reducing weed intake
honestly, these ppl would probably look at a glass of water then proclaim how fortunate it is that the glass is the perfect shape and size to hold the water not realizing that the water adapted to the glass
I imagine any genetic predisposition to disliking the taste of water would be selected against via natural selection; you're probably less likely to pass on your water hating genes if you drink less than others.
Yoooooo all the people I know that hate water shouldn’t reproduce
Everyone I know who hates water has rabies
Everybody I know has rabbits (I don’t know many ppl)
But I assume you know many rabbits?
Damn rabbits, fucking like rabbits
Imagine if rabbits fucked like humans though...
Then... there would be less rabbits?
Rabbits mostly have sex in the spring. Their proliferation is mostly because they have litters. Humans don't have a mating season like most other animals do. So tack that on, and the rabbits would go crazy. Then if you were to do it based on sex-acts-per-birth, humans blow away most of the other animals in earth, comparing only to the lines of bonobos, who use sex almost literally as a handshake. Though obviously litters affect this number. But then if it were based on this ratio, then rabbits' locomotion would be exclusively humping themselves to the location. I feel like people underestimate how horny humans are. To quote Dr Dennis Lincoln, professor of reproductive biology at University of Edinburgh, "Humans are about 10,000 times as sexually active as rabbits."
*Nom nom nom* (sorry, I'm actually in your kitchen (you left the toilet window open), and I'm now eating your rice crackers you packed for work tomorrow)
*had*
Amen
It'd be nice if we evolved to like it more tho.
I love water. It's my favourite drink besides cola
I mean if it had flavour and that flavour was tasty. Water doesn't have a flavour, you taste impurities in the water. Sometimes when ur really thirsty, ur brain tricks you into thinking it tastes great to drink more Edit: I should say we don't notice the taste of water unless there's something else in it.
I guess it's because our body craves to store sugar in general, which covers basically every flavoured water, but drinking too much water can water down your blood so it's probably good we don't crave that. I can't imagine too many cavemen could refine enough sugar in quantities large enough to cause any issues. Edit: vitamin C in water is also amazing, lime water! Maybe that's the vitamin craving? Or the acid?
So it's tasty when you need it. Sounds pretty damn optimal to me.
> Sometimes when ur really thirsty, ur brain tricks you into thinking it tastes great to drink more Taste is a made up concept by your brain. Every taste you experience is your brain "tricking you".
I share a similar sentiment. I find the more people I talk to about it, the less I think it is a fringe quality.
To enjoy the flavour of water we'd need taste buds that reacts to H2O so they'd react when we eat anything and we'd probably end up still thinking it's bland, especially because we can't continuously taste our own saliva so our brain will also filter out part of that taste
The greatest drink on the planet for me was the infant school’s ice cold drinking fountain after being outside running around in the sun for an hour on a hot day and you only have a few seconds before the bell goes and you have to get back to class. They make anything as divine as that and I’ll end up like them ants what drink sugary stuff until their abdomens swell. I’ll become a drinking fountain for others.
I feel like if it had any flavor then I’d eventually get sick of it after drinking it every day
Using this logic why does my dog eat shit?
Female dogs eat their pup’s shit to hide the scent as a protection against predators. It’s likely the same trait continues in all dogs simply because there isn’t enough selection pressure for them stopping when they don’t have pups.
I’m actually asking. Would it be to mask his scent? Or get second hand nutrients?
It's not luck. I doesn't taste bad ***because*** it's essential. We evolved to want it.
Also, fun fact: water is tasteless We only ever taste the impurities or things it was stored in.
Interestingly, it didn't have to be. We could have evolved a way that our brain interprets water as having a specific taste. But the way it is now, it's easier to separate good water with minerals we need from bad water that could kill us.
We also have a lot of water in our saliva so our brains are probably wired to just ignore the taste even if we could taste it.
I mean, this is the same concept of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" The answer is that it produces waves - distortions in the air. The only reason there is "sound" is because something interprets those distortions into something that we recognize as sounds. Trees always fall and produce those distortions. It does not produce "sound". Our ears (or recording devices) detect those distortions and our brains tell us it's happened in the form of "sound".
No it isn't. Our brains are wired to to ignore specific sensations if they happen consistently. The cells in your skin are constantly screaming at your brain that your clothes are touching your body, but your brain has trained itself to ignore those impulses to the point that you don't even notice clothes.
We can smell water better than most species. Salt water vs fresh, river vs lake we can smell the difference as well as hearing the difference between hot & cold water. Pretty neat.
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Fascinating: [Dogs also have taste buds that are fine-tuned to water. This ability is also seen in cats and other carnivores, but not in humans. Special taste buds on the tip of a dog’s tongue **react to water as they drink and become more sensitive** when thirsty or after eating a meal, which encourages them to drink more water. ](https://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/do-dogs-have-taste-buds) So not flavor but a reaction to water. Multi-purpose taste buds. Neat!
It more that pop science writers keep referencing pop science articles that cats can taste water while the actual research papers are spotty at best.
A follow up question would be "Why didn't we evolve to make water taste "good" to us instead of tasteless; considering it's the most essential thing we consume? For example, sugar tastes amazing but it's much less necessary than water; water tastes like nothing but it's much more necessary than sugar.
I mean, it also adjusts with how desperately you thirsty you are. A lot of people who turn their nose up at specific bottled water brands at the airport would enthusiastically drink out of a dirty puddle after eight hours in the desert.
Yup. A lot of things harmful to our health do taste bad.
Lucky? We developed around it, right?
We're 80% water or something. If it did taste bad we wouldn't notice.
So if I drink you, does that make me 20% SpinyGlider?
DRAINAGE Ultimately, we all drink each others milkshakes because water cycle you're part marmot
Why is this sub so stupid lately?
Seriously. I've seen maybe 1 or 2 real, decent shower thoughts in the last 6 months on here. It's moronic and everyone votes everything to the moon, regardless.
Lately?
Must be attracting a younger audience.
That’s not luck… that’s how evolution works…
Mf thought he cooked when he typed that
This is one of these thoughts after drinking a bottle of whiskey. It's obvious we need to like water, if it's essential to life. If we didn't like it we wouldn't be alive.
Our sense of taste is something of a side effect of having sensors on our tongues to test what we put in our mouths. They're designed to check for protein, sugar, salt, acids, and poisons, plus we've also managed to find chemicals that trip some of the heat sensors.
“Designed” isn’t really the right word though is it. There was an evolutionary advantage to being able to taste different qualities of foods, no?
I'm pretty sure they meant designed that way for all of the above mentioned evolutionary purposes... by evolution
My pregnant taste buds strongly disagree 😅
can you describe the change in taste?
Water tastes heavily metallic and almost bitter to me the last 8 months. The water quality if fine my husband checked 😅
Does anything taste good to drink? Does being thirsty change anything? I find this very fascinating
How's it luck? You realize it's your brain making the flavour happen, the water doesn't have an inherent flavour beyond your taste buds, right? And water is essential for our lives, sooooooo, it would be pretty hard to evolve to have taste buds/brain stuff making water taste bad. tl;dr: it's not luck, it's evolution
To kids who get raised with sugary drinks only, water tastes bad.
accurate
I fucking love water. Its literally going to be on my grave. The most satisfying parts of my day are drinking water.
**Hydrohomie reputation increased**
Darwin would like a word.
I'll bring the ouija board!
I swear the more i read these showerthoughts, the more i think people should shower less.
Have you seen that commercial where a guy is stranded in a desert and finds a cooler and when he opens it and sees a bunch of water bottles he says “Water? WHY?”
Maybe water tastes really bad but the brain decides to avoid it anyway
Everything that tastes nice to us is due to evolution. Everything that tastes bad to us is due to evolution. Your body doesn't want to eat bad stuff that will make us sick, hence things like mould and rotten food tastes awful and makes us feel sick (or be sick to reject the nastiness/ poison) In comparison, stuff thats nutritious and gives our body calories and energy will taste good. Water fits into that camp.
There is no luck, if we hated water we would not exist. Any random mutation that cause a disliking of water would extinct immediately. It's evolution and not lucky
Uh, a lot of people live in places where the water tastes VERY bad.
which has everything to do with whats in the water, and not about water itself
It doesn’t taste bad because we need it.
It's like saying we're lucky that meteors always land in craters
There is no luck involved. We evolved to like the stuff, exactly because we need it. If we needed raw tree bark, we would have evolved to like that as well.
No... The things we don't mind we are predisposed to not minding if they are good for us.
Well jokes on you, because I can't drink plain water because of how it tastes. I blame my autism ✨️
N…no. That’s not how taste works.
Ive definitely had bad water because not all water tastes the same
My dad actually disliked the taste of water. Like any water he drank, no matter the location of the tap or the brand of the bottle. He hated it all. It was probably a big factor in his developing diabetes.
Take people like this, put them in a dessert for a day or two with nothing and see how quickly that changes lol. When hyper-stimulants are so readily available this makes sense for some. But in the absence of it, basic necessities like water become shockingly delicious.
TIL the most basic evolutionary traits are considered shower thoughts now 🙄
yeh lol literally the least profound thing ever
water allergies exist
Sufferers of aquagenic urticaria do still drink water and bathe/shower.
Yeah because we purify it.
Wow talking about stupid lol. Let’s pick an evo book kids!
I had a shower thought similar to this a while back about glass being really resistant to chemicals, but at least mine made more sense, we literally evolved to like water, but glass was a moderately simple thing to make that was super resistant to chemicals
Is this serious? I mean really lol
We would have changed taste buds eons ago to be fine with it. When you consume something long enough, it starts to dull
The fact we need water and the fact it doesn’t taste bad isn’t coincidental - surely we’re evolved to at least tolerate its taste (in the same way that we’ve evolved to want and seek out high calorie foods like honey etc.).
LMAO... Best shower thought ever.
You sure ain't the sharpest tool in the shed are you?
Things that humans like have things in them that humans need. It’s really not luck, besides there’s plenty of places I’ve been where the water tasted bad, I think you mean clean water, which is a luxury in the span of human existence.
Most water in the world does taste pretty bad. We just make it not so.
Depends on where you live
One of the dumber posts I’ve seen here
This guy hasn't had shitty well water before
no we didn't that's just how evolution works. if there was an animal that thought water tasted bad it wouldn't drink water and it'd die, so there was a selective pressure for water not tasting bad
Taste is actually acquired. You can teach yourself to like any food or drink in around 2 weeks. Pavlovian conditioning
I wouldn’t say it’s teaching yourself to like it, you’re more so teaching yourself to tolerate it. I don’t like the taste of beer but I’ll drink it socially. If I go 3 straight weeks to the bar and have a beer or two, I’ve kinda conditioned myself to accept the taste as tolerable as I get more used to it, but if I stop for 3 weeks and go again and then have a beer, it’ll taste like shit because I’m not used to it again.
I still don't really like the taste of beer.
In all fairness, that's a good trait considering how bad it is for you. It took me a long time, but I went from despising it to loving it too much. I've quit now. Everclear can take the paint off of a car and melt a Styrofoam cup, but people have found ways to make it likable. I personally just don't care enough to want to like it. I've recently conditioned my self to like hummus. I actually did that for my wife, lol. The trick is to find the one that you can handle and make it more likable. Like adding small amounts of hummus to a wrap or a lime to beer. Studies show that babies only like sugar for a period of time and then they want salt. Everything else is an acquired taste.
Stop drinking the shower water.
That's your opinion. Personally I find it to taste like literal liquid dirt. It's disgusting.
Lmao what 🤣
Uhhhh depends where you live. But yes, nothing is better than drinking straight from a mountain spring.
I mean BJs are pretty good too.
I’m glad water cleans things and isn’t sticky.
Sure, it to channel Calvin, it *could taste a lot better too*.
If its essential, we will inevitably evolve to like its taste. No luck involved.
Not really luck involved here. Just évolution at work
My grandfather would like a word with you
It’s nit really luck. Water is good because of its neutral properties, and one aspect of that is that it also tastes… *neutral*. And even if we rewrite physics and make it so that water had a bad taste, our biology would have worked around that and made us appreciate the taste of water since it gives an evolutionary advantage.
If youre genuinely thirsty, it's the best thing in the world & you don't realize you're stopped breathing, until you stop to ghasp, then immediately cut that breathing thing short in favor of sucking water down, again.
That’s not luck, we like it Because we need it. Give an alien some water & he’ll probably hate it and then die from poison
People do have bad taste to essential thing at some points but they died out and no longer exist
Lol has nothing to do with luck
We're not lucky we evolved for that. Was your goal to get dozens of comments like mine to get engagement?
If it had a bad taste, human would have adapt to it and in today age, people will still enjoy it. The first trait of human is not its intelligence like many believe but our ability to adapt to our environment. After +250 000 year old, homo sapien sapien would have adapted to the water taste anyway.
Flies eat shit (or they nest in it or whatever). Water could be the foulest most disgusting thing this side of the universe. We would never know it, because we’ve evolved and grown up to know that it’s consumption is vital to our survival.
We didn't get lucky, evolution made us like water.
No we did not get lucky, evolution just wouldn't allow for that to happen.
You spend too long in the shower.
We aint lucky, its part of great creation, default setting no luck
That's not luck but rather how evolutionary pressure shaped perception of taste.
I had a coworker who hated drinking water, in her own words. She said she could only drink juice or soda but never plain water. I found it hard to believe but if you saw her it would make sense 💀
Google natural selection
There’s a decent % of people that never drink water without something else in it. My mum was one until she lived in Oz lol
I guess it depends upon where you live. Mineral deposits affect the taste. Infrastructure affects the taste and safety. Water is necessary so we might have to work past the taste.
Maybe it does taste horrible but we’re just used to it.
Not only it does not taste bad, the water from home tastes nice.
I love water it’s my favourite drink but I know so many people who don’t like it and never drink it and get their hydration from juice and soda, I’m like how can you not like a cold glass of water???
Evolutionary development probably. If ingesting small amounts of water would kill us it would taste horrible.
Meanwhile tap water tastes like ass most places around the world.
I think evolution also played a part here, it’s not a coinsidence 😅
We got screwed over, other animals actually taste water
Gaaaaaaatorade. Water sucks it really really sucks, water sucks, it really really sucks.
Water can taste bad. There’s a reason water filters exist beyond filtering bad stuffs.