Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Why are we addicted to information? Maybe we are specially addicted to technology-enabled information? Hopefully we'll end up where we started - consuming the beauty and uniqueness of nature, which is also a stream of information. We'll just have to (re-)learn the langugage.


"Perhaps curiosity itself, the need to know, is a form of addiction, making us race to the end of a good mystery novel, or driving scientists to work day and night until they discover insulin, say, or decode the structure of DNA, scientific breakthrough being the ultimate hit of information. When the Theory of General Relativity dawned on Einstein, he must have had the mother of all dopamine rushes."

Three articles later, it turns out I am wrong, just about any information will do.
I still think my ultimate dopamine rush is true love. We'll see.

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