The problem is compounded by the diversity of contexts by which the addiction-like behavior is triggered, perpetuated, and reinforced. While meth and heroin derive their power from a disproportionate affinity with the processes that govern salience, valence, and habituation...
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Technology addiction derives itself from the diversity by which it enacts itself upon the private spheres - in the worse cases, synergetically so. The pathological basis is always experiential and contextual. There are systematic processes that erode autonomy. That's pathology.
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That this process of erosion is constituted by a diversity of contextual processes interacting with each other in the space of human experience and daily life, without the singular penetrating power as with heroin, does not mean it cannot bring forth the same pathological markers
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Anyways, all to say that yes there are distinct forms of addictions, but we shouldn't deny the experiential basis by which the language has spread beyond psychoactive substances, as that affinity or penetration to yield grip on the psyche, can systematically be approximated.
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Therefore the focus should not be semantic games, if one cares about the psychiatric reality of people and culture. Instead it should be about understanding the differences in these processes, and how that can be translated to human well-being.
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Replying to @neuropoetic
It was a good one!
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Replying to @generativist
Thank you! I'll treat my fingers to some ... Wait what do my fingers like?
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Replying to @neuropoetic
Burritos
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... as in, do I stick my fingers in the burrito? Is that what finger food means?
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It can be but just the satisfaction of holding a miracle food should do the trick
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Replying to @generativist
I will indulge my fingers in burritos on the first chance I get. Thank you for your finger wisdom.
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