so much he wouldn't do it.

And the extension from that is that people who don't like to eat as much are going to be able to control their weight. Now I'm a perfect example. I am currently actually, I overshot my mark. I'm actually below the weight I would like to be at the moment. I could probably add two pounds. But I got there effortlessly by just not eating bread for a while. That's it. I just took bread out of my diet, nothing else, just any bread, and lost 10 pounds right away. Now do I sound like somebody who's obsessed about food? No, I'm not a foodie. I don't like dessert. I'm just not drawn to it. It's the same reason I'm not an alcoholic. I am not an alcoholic. I don't enjoy alcohol as much as alcoholics do. I'm not fat because I don't enjoy food as much as other people do. And that's it.

Once you understand that one sentence, "I like to eat," that's the explanation of everything in the world. If you believe there's this thing called willpower, that doesn't make sense because you could say yeah, yeah, maybe you like it better but you use your willpower. You just got to ramp up your willpower a little higher. Just get a little more willpower there. There is no such thing as willpower or free will. There are only competing things that you like to do or you're afraid of. That's it. The things you want to do and the things you're afraid of. There's nothing else. And if there's something you're not afraid of and you want to do it, you're going to do a lot of it. And if that happens to be eating, you can eat too much. Everything can be explained by simply competing levels of interest, how much you want something. It explains your entire behavior, all activity, all human activity. Everything you see can be described by people follow the thing they like the most and they fear the least. That's it. You don't need any free will or willpower or any of that stuff. You can explain all observations. Nothing's left out.

Anyway, that's just another example in which the people who are hypnotists have learned what science is learning 40 years later. And it's all right. I may have told you this about the large language models, that as a hypnotist I'd learned 40 years ago that people don't have actual thoughts like reason. They just put words together and then they say later, well that was a reason. And that's what the large language models taught us 40 years later. Yeah, hypnosis was way ahead of all the brain science. And it wasn't because there was a science to hypnosis. It was just trial and error and it became obvious what a brain was if you're a hypnotist. If you weren't a hypnotist you believed in magic. Oh I've got a soul and free will and willpower. These are all just magical thinking. Hypnotists don't see any of that in practice. They just see it like a machine and then it explains everything.

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