Re:An undercover cop who abandoned the war on drugs
by dragonwriter on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:24PM
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> Is something with a very bad taste addictive?
I'm sure something with a very bad taste is addictive, but that's neither here nor there.
> Tasting it clearly generates sensations in the brain that can be interpreted to be an effect of the physical configuration of the body.
> And yet it's not possible for such a food to make someone an addict to it.
You seem to be thinking that I made an argument that was equivalent to "every effect on the physical configuration of the body must produce addiction" rather than one equivalent to "in the absence of some non-physical process driving psychology, every psychological effect, including psychological addictions that are often characterized as 'not-physiological', must, in fact, have a physiological basis."
> Your argument doesn't seem convincing to me.
You seem to have a very bizarre idea of what my argument is that doesn't seem closely attached to anything I actually wrote.
I'm sure something with a very bad taste is addictive, but that's neither here nor there.
> Tasting it clearly generates sensations in the brain that can be interpreted to be an effect of the physical configuration of the body.
> And yet it's not possible for such a food to make someone an addict to it.
You seem to be thinking that I made an argument that was equivalent to "every effect on the physical configuration of the body must produce addiction" rather than one equivalent to "in the absence of some non-physical process driving psychology, every psychological effect, including psychological addictions that are often characterized as 'not-physiological', must, in fact, have a physiological basis."
> Your argument doesn't seem convincing to me.
You seem to have a very bizarre idea of what my argument is that doesn't seem closely attached to anything I actually wrote.