The Simple Beauty of the Human Brain. Emphasis on Simple.

Photo #566: Simple BeautyLocation Taken: Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland
Time Taken: July 2012

Darn you, Pavlov!

I’m listening to some very lovely traditional Chinese music and it’s making me crave egg drop soup.

That’s the type of conditioning that Pavlov studied all right. I almost exclusively hear traditional Chinese music played at Chinese restaurants. And I almost always get egg drop soup at said restaurants. I guess my brain has set up a correlation between the two and is saying “I hear the music, now where’s my soup?”

Ah, the joys of mental quirks.

(And the flower’s because it was the first photo I found that looked even vaguely “Chinese”, despite it being from the opposite side of the planet. If I’d have ever visited China, one of those photos would be here instead. But I haven’t.)

  

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