Thoughts on conceptual abstraction transitions
- Seeking (reply to one of the tweets below with ideas)
- a better name for this concept!
- & more examples!
- Things that I've seen do this sort of transition
- addiction/alcoholism
- 1st: it's a moral failing
- 2nd: it's a disease
- 3rd: it's a learning challenge that occurs mostly due to cultural factors / lack of psychosocial integration
- (mostly this model came from reading The Biology of Desire, an excellent book on addiction)
- homosexuality etc
- 0th: it's not an issue in the first place? (unclear)
- 1st: it's a moral failing
- 2nd: it's a disease
- 3rd: it's innate ∴ natural ∴ must be accepted
- 4th: maybe it's actually partially a response to cultural factors, but also it's still okay
- Currently just a few tweets