&gt; Allow me to randomly speculate that in your mental world, reading some Intellectually Fascinating Article has an extremely high priority, whereas eating dinner is just some stupid thing your body demands, and so because of this configuration of like&#x2F;dislike or attraction&#x2F;aversion you tend to chow down whatever is easiest so you can get back to the Fascinating Article.<p>I literally just chowed down an easy meal and rushed back to my computer to continue this Fascinating Article, only to find this sentence, which described exactly what I was doing.