The Sour Paradox and Memory Loss is Memory Gain

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Of the classic five categories of taste, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, only one of them has no discernible evolutionary purpose. Scientists do not understand why we even sense sour, let alone why it is so pervasive across species. Jeff and Anthony look at the evidence and consider the most prominent theories. Then, what if having a touch time remembering something isn't a bug, but a feature? Anthony and Jeff examine a new paper that suggests that out brain is optimizing for success when it limits recall.

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0:00.0	Where this all ends is me holding five ice cream cones and playing Mario Kart GP.
0:21.6	And you can't argue with that.
0:23.1	This is We Have Concerns.
0:24.3	Hi Jeff Canada.
0:25.6	Hi Anthony Carboni.
0:27.0	Hello Concerned Citizens.
0:30.2	Well speaking of flavor taste.
0:32.2	Oh, that's my favorite kind of flavor.
0:36.0	Right?
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	Delicious flavor taste.
0:39.0	And my favorite kind of taste.
0:40.6	I have a question for you Anthony Carboni.
0:42.8	I would love to answer it.
0:43.8	I don't know, but we have over the lifetime of this show, we've talked about favorite
0:49.8	sweets.
0:50.8	I mean, it's one of our favorite topics talking about delicious yum-yums that are going
0:54.5	our tum-tums.
0:55.5	Listen, when you're two guys that are as boring as we are, you take the excitement where
1:02.8	you can and where we can is sugar.
1:06.3	We, I never, I never in my life did I imagine I would grow up to be this straight lace of
1:13.1	a boring dude.
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