What is the scientific evolutionary purpose of addictions? It seems that making rational decisions without the brain’s addictive cravings would be more effective.Okay, a given activity or substance brings us pleasure, but why does the brain demand that we repeat this experience if, in the long run, it is destructive for us?
>>16771227In 100,000 years your question will be less stupid
>>16771227evolution is not some magical force that just gives you shit to make you better lifeform drooler. It just filters out shit, over time, that hinders you from reproducing
I'm an addict and the evolutionary advantage is the gift of desperation g-o-d
>>16771227Negative things don’t have evolutionary traits to them. You have to struggle against them to be a success at evolution.
>>16771227that's like asking what the evolutionary purpose of stomach acid dissolving that which enters the stomach, and producing chemicals.it's a chemical consequence not an evolutionary goal
>in the long runaddicts usually don't care, it's all about this immediate pleasuretake crack as an extreme example crackheads will spend all their money and keep smoking crack until they run out or they pass out after being awake for a weekafterwards they'll search the floor for an hour looking for crack crumbssober them up for few hours and there's no more extreme cravings
>>16771227Satan wants you to be drawn down to gravity rather than achieving holiness.
>>16771227Morons like you prove a certain big slice of people always need a creator/watchmaker dynamic to understand how biology and evolution works.
uh oh, evolutionary psychology fails YET again! How shocking!
>>16771227>find thing that makes body happy>consumeYou know food? That thing you shove in your face orifice that probably tastes like shit because you're an idiot?It's supposed to taste good. Things that taste good are good for you.Isolated substances that taste like the things that are good for you are not good for you.Welcome to basic stimuli.
>>16771227Evolution decreases entropy. At least locally anyway. Addiction can be very useful, yellow jackets are addicted to sweet liquids. Their sisters, in grub form, use this addiction to force the flying forms to bring them protein.Addiction to sex is a strong driver for reproduction. All addictions are genetically controlled open to abuse. Sex particularly so. If you are genetically prone to deviant sexual behavior, then publicly normalizing this behavior will only end in misery. That is why normalizing deviant behavior is so badBut in the end, the natural order doesnt care. Time is on her side, and these deviants will all die out. Some sooner than others.
>>16771676>All addictions are genetically controlled AND open to abuse.
>>16771227You're right, it doesn't make sense. In fact, addiction is not a feature, but a bug of your reward circuit
>>16771227it makes drug companies more money
