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> in a way that the human brain thinks makes sense.

Side note: Let us avoid pseudoscientific and pseudophilosophical language like this bit. It is suggestive of the homunculus fallacy, it misconstrues the nature of perception, and ignores the role of habit and cultural influences. It's also artificial, stylistically stodgy, and comes off as pretentious in a gauche, pop sci kind of way.

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You can have all the idealism you want in a place where farmers aren't bankrupted by not supplying what the market demands.

The market demands bananas that are not brown when they are ripe.

> in a place where farmers aren't bankrupted by not supplying what the market demands.

Farmers ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

okay semantic santa thank you for gifting us this trite side note. the message was clear and makes sense and youre disregarding that to elevate your preferred modus of communication. do you eat the chaff with your wheat?

its almost as if the roles of habit and cultur influence the way that a human brain makes sense of its stimulus.

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