November 2016

Descartes was onto something, l I am not indubitably   certain, in consciousness, that I exist and that I am   thinking such-and-such. But for so long as I am conscious,   consciously thinking such-and-such, I am   aware that I am so thinking. And that awareness - of   my experience and so of myself- defines consciousness.   Yet modern philosophy was soon beset with   puzzles about the self, self-awareness, and inner   awareness of experience.  

Nevertheless, the combination of a long-term aim and a short-term one in our alcohol addiction overcoming model rational choice story has some potential yet. We wrote before that alcohol addiction unlike some other drugs takes time and often reaches its peak when a person is at the peak of his / her career has a high position in the society, a good salary, favorite work: those things that are weighty not only at the rational level, but also provide strong incentives for the same reward system he / she stimulates with alcohol at the same time. The alcohol addiction study often contain the idea that, statistically, the addiction affects different social strata evenly.