The taste of sideways

He wondered, pushing the mush around with his tongue as he chewed his food, how his tongue knew where to go to avoid being bitten. Then he bit his tongue. Huh, so that's what happened if you started to think how tongues and taste and chewing worked? If you thought about it, it stopped working.

Then he started to think about how thinking worked. Fortunately he managed to stop himself in time.