On: Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and su...

[astrange]

Personality disorders aren't physical conditions anymore than the number 2 is a physical object. They're maladaptive learned behaviors.

[FollowingTheDao → astrange]

Maladaptive learned behaviors change the physical structure of the brain.

[astrange → FollowingTheDao]

That's like calling a malware infection a damaged hard drive. The way to fix them is at the same conceptual level you learned them from; we don't have offline brain editing tech.

[FollowingTheDao → astrange]

We do have brain editing tech, it is called synaptic plasticity.

We are not a computer. Or we are one that can in fact change its own hardware.