"It is something we seem hard-wired to do. When you find new information, you get an opioid hit (the brain’s pleasure-enhancing neurotransmitters), and we are junkies for those. You might call us ‘infovores.’"
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Irving Biederman, from Why We’re Powerless To Resist Grazing On Endless Web Data by Lee Gomes.
(So that’s why!) (via heather-rivers)
We’re just plain old hard-wired for addiction, aren’t we? Whether it be chocolate, booze, sex or information, it is inevitable.
