Slate is running a story about how studious the www
notes:internet should be capitalized and keeping up with events through instant wavelength can fulfill biochemical needs within our brains. exploration has shown that anticipation and simply "wanting" can stimulate dopamine assembly in the brain, and an a us government information network (the advanced research projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science full of answers plays right into that. Quoting: "For humans, this desire to search is not just about fulfilling our phenomenal needs. Panksepp says that humans can get just as excited about abstract rewards as tangible ones. He says that when we get thrilled about the world of ideas, about making intellectual connections, about divining meaning, it is the seeking circuits that are firing. ... The dopamine circuits 'promote states of eagerness and directed purpose,' Panksepp writes. It's a state humans love to be in. So good does it feel that we seek out activities, or substances, that keep this system aroused — cocaine and amphetamines, drugs of stimulation, are particularly productive at stirring it."

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