Yet it tastes like nothing.
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It tastes so good because it satisfies our deepest animal instincts, thirst. Same how eating decent food when you are hungry tastes awesome.
You need water to live. Organisms that “like” water are more likely to drink it, which means they’re more likely to live, which means they’re more likely to live long enough to have children, which means their children are likely to inherit that trait and “like” water. Repeat for long enough, and here you are.
Same reason salt tastes good (because you need it to live), and sugar tastes good (because it’s easily-accessible energy).
I’m not scientist but that “nothing” is a taste. You only have the idea that water taste like nothing because the generalization is water has no taste or is the basis for no taste. But when you have water, you know what clean water is and what dirty water is. So that nothingness has to have some distinct flavor.
And I’d imagine the body under or mind understands that that’s going to refuel the body, regardless of the sweetened drinks that modern life has showcased to be normal. Which over the millennia, water has been the source of survival for humans/animals. So it’s going to trigger that delicious taste even in its “nothingness”.
1) Water is extremely important, thus your body has evolved mechanisms to basically trick you into thinking water tastes good if/when you’re particularly thirsty.
2) Water itself is actually tasteless, but water is also a solvent, and as such a lot of junk gets dissolved in it. All of that junk (particularly the minerals) give various flavors to water.
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