On this model, why would tobacco be a common informal treatment for incipient schizophrenia? Seems like there might be multiple, qualitatively different, regulatory mechanism for learning.
IME nicotine boosts the rewardingness of rewards, which is very different from e.g. what I want for deep thought where I want to be patient and avoid premature gradient-descent & need to sit with discomfort for a while. Maybe nicotine makes gamification more effective, increases positive motivation for passing tests / making progress, at the cost of reduced ability to do novel pattern recognition (which is what psychedelics seem to boost).
On this model, why would tobacco be a common informal treatment for incipient schizophrenia? Seems like there might be multiple, qualitatively different, regulatory mechanism for learning.
IME nicotine boosts the rewardingness of rewards, which is very different from e.g. what I want for deep thought where I want to be patient and avoid premature gradient-descent & need to sit with discomfort for a while. Maybe nicotine makes gamification more effective, increases positive motivation for passing tests / making progress, at the cost of reduced ability to do novel pattern recognition (which is what psychedelics seem to boost).