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The Fantasy of Addiction
- ouid 10y agoI don't buy it. Addiction isn't well understood, but free will isn't even well-posed. What kind of argument is "people sometimes give up their addictions, therefore addiction has no descriptive power as a concept"? Is that not the expected state? Here is an example of different way to improve our addiction model without relying on something as wishy washy as free will. http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/01/02/144431794/what-vietnam-taught-us-about-breaking-bad-habits http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/01/02/14443179...