Socijalna psihijatrija, Vol. 54 No. 2, 2026.
Sažetak sa skupa
https://doi.org/10.24869/spsih.2026.137
The Anatomy of the Gambling Mind
Luka Maršić
; Klinički bolnički centar „Sestre milosrdnice“, Vinogradska cesta 29, 10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska
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Sažetak
The aim of this paper is to explain why the gambling
mind — which functions by operating with
half-information, information it generates out of
perception rather than out of the thinking of the
concept — requires effort. What is at issue are
empirical data and observations acquired over
many years of work with gamblers, which in this
paper are synthesized, through conceptual analyses
and inferences, into abstract and universal
conclusions, according to the principles of experimental
philosophy. It is far more accurate to say
that in gamblers we are dealing (most often) with
healthy persons who adapt their reason by means
of illusion and absurdity, and not with ill persons.
The conclusion reached is that a multilayered processing
of the gambling personality is necessary,
by way of the moral filters of existence, in which
truth is distinguished from untruth by effort and
by logic, and which place the gambler at the center
of his own being (autonomy, autarky), as against
pleasure, meaninglessness, and slave consciousness.
Those addicted to nonsubstance models of memory modeling (gambling, video games) employ
the concept of “culture” as in all civilizations
to date, and so too in postmodernism, through
“systems of drill”, learning and practicing the disciplines
necessary to their survival, just as does
every non-addict. The only difference today is
that the cultural patterns transmitted from generation
to generation, those important cognitive
and moral rules of life, have been worked over by
marketing into some form of pseudointellectual
labor in which the ludic form is emphasized.
Ključne riječi
gambler; mind; postmodernism; logic; ludens
Hrčak ID:
352261
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Datum izdavanja:
15.6.2026.
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