<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>> So my answer is that no, Einstein would NOT have discovered General Relativity if he were addicted to immediate pleasure.<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>So my next question is could any mind avoid becoming addicted if it had complete unrestricted access to its own emotional control panel?<br></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, opiates are the closest thing to the emotional control panel we have.<br></div><div>And the Rat Park experiment showed that "addicted" rats will de-addict themselves given adequate stimulation in the environment.<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park</a><br><br>"Alexander built Rat Park, an 8.8 m2 (95 sq ft) housing colony, 200 times the floor area of a standard laboratory cage. There were 16–20 rats of both sexes in residence, an abundance of food, balls and wheels for play, and enough space for mating and raising litters.[3]:166 The results of the experiment appeared to support his hypothesis. Rats who had been forced to consume morphine hydrochloride for 57 consecutive days were brought to Rat Park and given a choice between plain tap water and water laced with morphine. For the most part, they chose the plain water. "Nothing that we tried," Alexander wrote, "... produced anything that looked like addiction in rats that were housed in a reasonably normal environment."[1] Control groups of rats isolated in small cages consumed much more morphine in this and several subsequent experiments."<br>
<br></div><div>Kiran<br></div></div></div></div>