Some dubious claims, but hey, it’s your model. It will either stand up to further scrutiny or it won’t. You undermine your credibility though by making an erroneous claim about dopamine. As Berridge and others have shown quite conclusively, dopamine instantiates desire (wanting) not pleasure. How you can be proposing a model of addiction without being familiar with incentive salience theory is baffling.
Kent Berridge - The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: The case for incentive salience. Psychopharmacology (2007) 191:391–431
Some dubious claims, but hey, it’s your model. It will either stand up to further scrutiny or it won’t. You undermine your credibility though by making an erroneous claim about dopamine. As Berridge and others have shown quite conclusively, dopamine instantiates desire (wanting) not pleasure. How you can be proposing a model of addiction without being familiar with incentive salience theory is baffling.
Kent Berridge - The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: The case for incentive salience. Psychopharmacology (2007) 191:391–431
DOI 10.1007/s00213-006-0578-x
Wonderful read, thanks!