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The disagreement between Sandy's husband and doctor centers around the idea of "disease". If obesity, depression, alcoholism, and the like are diseases, most people default to the doctor's point of view; if they are not diseases, they tend to agree with the husband.

This could be seen as use of a heuristic, being that if the goal is to get mentally & physically healthier, treatment is likely to have negative affects that outweigh the positive if it is being used as a solution for "problems of character" rather than disease. So I guess the question is whether that is an useful/accurate heuristic.

Similarly, I thought maybe a perceived distinction (false or otherwise) between our "selves" (consciousness), and our neurology, along with the rest of the physical world? Such that I automatically feel that nothing physical can have direct causal/coercive impact on my conscious self? Hope that makes sense.

Hello,

Great to find LessWrong and people thinking about thinking. Very new too all this but trying to get my head screwed on as straight as I can as fast as I can.

I am a high school student formerly from the US now living in Israel. Wanted to know if anyone has top recommendations for content/ideas from the rationality or adjectant communities? Or other groups that might be helpful to bringing my thinking to the next level?

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I think you're thinking of the Biblical story in Samuel 1 chapter 14 with Jonathan and Saul, though Saul doesn't kill him there.