That is one of the most important aspects of addiction. For instance one of the strongest predictors of recovery from cigarette addiction is the person's assessment of those situations, thoughts and behaviors where they would have the most difficulty in not smoking. While there are other factors involved, from what I remember the R squared value was well above .6, suggesting that you could account for a considerable portion of the variance in later measures of smoking cessation.
What part of the R squared value can be represented by Free Will? Operationally define Free Will and I can let you know. The thing is that given our increasing knowledge of how the human system works means that its rapidly becoming a technology rather than an art or some prescription by a philosophy or religion. As such who ends up controlling this technology? For instance advertising agencies are jumping into functional MRI studies to determine what attracts people to products services etc. Should there be unregulated use of this? How do you feel about advertising that uses hooks that lie very deep down in our nervous system? Where is the free will in this case? On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think it belittles free will a bit when you bring it down to the > level of an addict avoiding triggers. I also think it shows a > misunderstanding of addiction to try to solve it with free will. From > what I understand, that's about like telling Larry that he should > accept personal responsibility for having diabetes. > > This message was brought to you by the Committee on Seeing the Shades of Grey > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> a much more simple explanation is that you are avoiding the discrete >>> stimuli that trigger a behavioral response. Or take it one step >>> higher, you avoid those situations or cues that can trigger those >>> cognitions beliefs and emotions that lead to additive behavioral >>> responses. >> >> If that's simple - pigs fly. >> >> The simple version is "I make personal choices and take responsibility >> for the outcome". >> >> -Cameron >> >> ... >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:312521 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
