[ExI] addiction again

[Will Steinberg]

I sent you like 5 papers dude

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 10:28 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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