Unlike computers, the brain runs on conflict between different possibilities, all of which try to out-compete the others. And there are always multiple options. Even after you’ve selected mint or lemon, you find yourself in a new conflict: should you eat the whole thing? Part of you wants the delicious energy source, and at the same time part of you knows it’s sugary, and perhaps you should be jogging instead. Whether you polish off the whole container is simply a matter of the way the infighting goes.
