[ExI] addiction

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:29 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Kelly Anderson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:45 PM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] addiction
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> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
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> I don't think people are going to get very far with understanding
> addiction until they understand why human (some at least) can be
> addicted at all.
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> You folks are sick of hearing about it from me, anyone have an
> evolutionary pathway to this curious trait.
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> >…To addiction? Why did addiction evolve? This seems ultimately simple to
> me (sorry for jumping in here nearly a year late, but the thread never got
> here and I thought I had something to add when it came up out of random
> chance.)…
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> -Kelly
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> Hi Kelly, where the heck have you been?
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> I have one thing to add to Keith’s and your comments.  We get that whole
> endorphins for sex link, and we get that endorphins are addictive.  But
> there is another thing that can create an endorphin rush: severe bodily
> distress, such as that one gets from a runners high or from severe
> fasting.  I have felt each of those rushes exactly once in my life and I
> understand exactly why people can get addicted to either one: they feel
> good.
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> spike
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