my long-running theory was that from birth, our brains are constantly evaluating each and every face that we come in contact with.

we take the inventory of faces and attach a measurement of pleasure and pain associated with that face. everyone, your teachers, cab drivers, baby sitters, obnoxious strangers. everyone.

so, after a while we have this subconscious, enormous inventory of faces that we have a lot relative data on. and when we come in contact with a new face, we make an immediate assessment of attraction.

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I'm thirty two years old.

I JUST realized this theory is dumb as shit.