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Dennis Hackethal revised idea #730.
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Conjecture: addiction is the result of the entrenchment of a conflict between two or more preferences in a mind.
Conjecture: addiction is the result of the entrenchment of a conflict between two or more preferences in a mind.
Picture a chain smoker who wants to give up smoking but also really enjoys smoking. Those preferences conflict.
If the conflict is entrenched, then both preferences get to live on indefinitely.