The mind is a metaphysical concept which no one understands, and yet many stand to profit on this fact by making popular but unsubstantiated assumptions. Yet i

The mind is a metaphysical concept which no one understands, and yet many stand to profit on this fact by making popular but unsubstantiated assumptions. Yet in some cases medication can help. Writing about something I have seen a bit of, ADHD, it is very clear to me that some people get remarkably better lives when the get medication. Still I hear voices trying to vilify standard ADHD medication. For the rest of this post here is a disclaimer: I have no formal education in this - I only happen to have reasons to be more than usually interested. Now I cannot tell you why it works biologically but I have an interesting idea why stimulants are effective against both inattentive and hyperactive variants of ADHD. My idea is that both are caused by a too high (in boring 2017) treshold for "interesting". Hyperactive kids solve this by being unusually active thereby attracting attention or otherwise make things happen. Primarily inattentive kids solve it by zoning out or daydreaming. If my idea is right the reason why stimulants work in both cases is because it either raises the general interestingness-level or lower the interestingness treshold.