Comment Far from Measureable (Score 1) 261
Measurable???? How so?
What you mean to say is that brain scans among those that are addicted to certain substances (and allegedly to certain activities) show some degree of correlation. And THAT IS ALL you can say about this.
There is no way you can point to a brain scan and say someone is addicted to one particular substance and to what degree they are addicted. If you looked at "before" and "after" scans of the same person, or compared the scan of a person to the scans of several other addicted and non-addicted persons, you *may* be able to hypothesize that the person may be addicted to *something*. But these are all heuristics, nothing more. Don't pretend that we know enough about neurology to measure a darn thing.
What you mean to say is that brain scans among those that are addicted to certain substances (and allegedly to certain activities) show some degree of correlation. And THAT IS ALL you can say about this.
There is no way you can point to a brain scan and say someone is addicted to one particular substance and to what degree they are addicted. If you looked at "before" and "after" scans of the same person, or compared the scan of a person to the scans of several other addicted and non-addicted persons, you *may* be able to hypothesize that the person may be addicted to *something*. But these are all heuristics, nothing more. Don't pretend that we know enough about neurology to measure a darn thing.
