[ExI] addiction

[William Flynn Wallace]

I said it was easy for me.  Never meant to imply that a lot of people
didn't have trouble doing it.  People outside the sciences think of
definitions as synonyms, metaphors, similes.  That won't do.  People on the
chat group said of course willpower exists since they had it.  That was
when I went into the kinds of definitions science uses as opposed to the
public.   bill, not william, f

On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 7:26 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> When did we start talking about a way to define and measure willpower?
> The point of the whole thing was that William said stopping addiction was
> easy, voluntary, and didn't involve physical damage, and we showed
> scientific proof otherwise.
>
> Why are we having weird semantic discussions now?
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