<div dir="auto">I sent you like 5 papers dude</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 7, 2022, 10:28 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">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</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 9:10 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's strange to me that we are even having this conversation on an email list that purports to be science-focused. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. ;)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 6, 2022, 7:29 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div>
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