[ExI] addiction again

[William Flynn Wallace]

To catch you up on some other stuff, spontaneous generation turned out to
be wrong, microbes are real and cause disease (not miasma), and leeches are
far less effective than you may have been led to believe. ;) will

I do not respond well to patronizing or sarcasm.  I do have a suggestion as
to where you could put a leech.  You are a pretty smart fellow but may be
behind in genetic epistemology.  Just because some term is used to apply to
people does not make it exist, or if it exists, a useful term. LIke the
other - show me that it isn't circular and we can have a conversation, not
the start of a flaming war.    bill w

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 9:10 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> William--I assume you have access to a computer unless you dictate all
> your emails, so it should be easy enough for you to go to PubMed or Google
> Scholar and do some cursory research on the neurobiology of addiction.
>
> Honestly no offense but this isn't really a conversation that needs to be
> had; the science is there.  It's like if you made a post asking how
> airplanes fly.   We don't know how addiction works fully but we have simple
> answers and yours is a simple question.
>
> It's strange to me that we are even having this conversation on an email
> list that purports to be science-focused.
>
> To catch you up on some other stuff, spontaneous generation turned out to
> be wrong, microbes are real and cause disease (not miasma), and leeches are
> far less effective than you may have been led to believe. ;)
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 7:29 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Henry, in what way is addiction an inability?  How do you measure that?
>> All you can say is that they haven't done it, not that they can't.
>> Involuntary elbow moving cigarette to mouth?  Huh?  No way.
>>
>> bill w
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