Saturday 8 March 2014

Mechanism Equals Ultimate Cause???


     "Addiction neuroscience has been valuably informed by animal models. ... The neurobiological power of these behavioral models has perhaps contributed to underemphasis of the subjective dimension of addiction, where the conscious experience of urge and tension during withdrawal may be treated as an epiphenomenon. ... Interoceptive models of emotion propose that subjective feelings ultimately arise from interoceptive signals."
     Gray MA, Critchley HD. Interoceptive basis to craving. Neuron. 2007;54(2):183-6.

     This wild leap, from animal MODEL - to - ULTIMATE CAUSE in HUMANS, is not characteristic of science. See: http://www.johnlovas.com/2014/03/science-scientism-what-it-means-to-be.html
    
     Subjective feelings are multi-factorial on the grandest scale, CAUSED BY everything that occurred previously - the entire biopsychosocialspiritual & genetic history of the human being experiencing them. Westward migration in North America was not CAUSED BY wagon wheels!


Steve McCurry   http://stevemccurry.com/
 

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