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The hard problem of breakfast — How does it emerge from bacon and eggs?

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  1. Akir
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    I did not enjoy the article, but I did enjoy the footnotes with such gems as

    I did not enjoy the article, but I did enjoy the footnotes with such gems as

    Morris D. & Shrenk R. That Time We Got Baked and Ordered Every Breakfast at IHOP. Reddit (2009).

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  2. skybrian
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    If you like philosophy, I recommend checking out David Chapman’s book in progress, In the Cells of the Eggplant. He talks about breakfast sometimes.

    If you like philosophy, I recommend checking out David Chapman’s book in progress, In the Cells of the Eggplant. He talks about breakfast sometimes.

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  3. mrbig
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    The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory to explain how such disparate, seemingly inert components give rise to the phenomenon we subjectively experience as “breakfast.

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