education/english/ENGL2010/Addiction Analysis.md

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 		- Socrates felt that this didn't make sense, arguing that actions always reveal true beliefs
 			- "Socrates clearly never went to a restaurant with unlimited chips. But he has a point. To figure out what a person’s true priorities are, we usually look to the choices they make. (“Actions speak louder than words.”) When a person binges on TV, munches chips, or gets high despite the consequences, Socrates would infer that they must care more about indulging now than about avoiding those consequences — whatever they may _say_ to the contrary"
 			- He argues that people simply have bad judgement, and that they aren't acting against their better judgement.
-			- He also argues that bad decisions indicate bad priorities.
-			- The idea that people need to hit "rock bottom" before they can hit true recovery reinforces that idea. It means that a person needs to truly understand the consequences of their "selfishness".
-			- Socratic rationale for punishing drug possession with jail is another example of this idea.
 	- Addiction intensifies the disconnect between judgement and action
 		- "Here’s the testimony of one person with addiction, reported in Maia Szalavitz’s book [_Unbroken Brain_](https://books.google.com/books?id=4yJ3CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q&f=false): “I can remember many, many times driving down to the projects telling myself, ‘You don’t want to do this! You don’t want to do this!’ But I’d do it anyway.”
 			- Ethos
-- The "self" is not a single unitary thing
-	- The concept of a "dual process" mind comes from Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, who divides the mind into a part that makes judgements quickly, intuitively, and unconsciously ("System 1") and a part that thinks more slowly, rationally, and consiously ("System 2").
-	- Neuroscientist Kent Berridge notes a system in our brain he calls the "wanting system", which regulates our cravings for things like food, sex, and drugs, using signals based in the neutrotransmitter dopamine
-		- "More pertinent for our purposes is research on what [University of Michigan neuroscientist Kent Berridge](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~berridge/) calls the “wanting system,” which regulates our cravings for things like food, sex, and drugs using signals based in the neurotransmitter dopamine. The wanting system has powerful control over behavior, and its cravings are insensitive to long-term consequences."
-		- He notes that drugs hijack that system causing cravings that are far stronger than humans experience.
-	- The boundaries of where "the self" is in the human brain aren't clearly defined, processes in the brain mesh together tightly, so there's no clean boundary.
-	- From a philosophical sense, there are many different ways to approach the concept of the self.
-	- Modern philosophers reject the socratic view on behavior, instead saying that the self is instead based on judgements about the kind of person one wants to be, and the life they want to lead.
-	- Addiction lies somewhere between choice and compulsion. Addiction doesn't make the choice for you, but it makes you gravitate towards a particular options.
-	- Addiction is not a moral failure because it's still the same person, they just face cravings that are far harder to resist.
-		- Treatments like methadone and buprenorphine can help with addiction by reducing the power of those cravings.
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