darius comments on Experiential Pica - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Alicorn 16 August 2009 09:23PM

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Comment author: darius 20 August 2009 03:33:20AM 7 points [-]

the brain misfires. It didn't make me crave liver and shellfish and molasses, it made me crave water in frozen form.

I think it's been suggested that this craving made sense when cracking bones with your teeth released iron-rich marrow, and ice cubes were not available. (Hearsay from Seth Roberts's blog; I don't have a reference.)

Comment author: Alicorn 20 August 2009 03:37:47AM 2 points [-]

Cyan already mentioned what Seth Roberts had to say on the subject.