If You Seek (Kay)

[geoviki]

I spend a lot of time reading Slate and Salon, two liberal online news mags. And even I'm getting tired of reading their too-numerous rants about Birthers (who think Obama was born in Kenya, never mind the ridiculousness of the logistics alone) and now Deathers (who claim U.S. health care reform is gonna murder Grandma, oh noes!). So I applaud other stuff when it come up, and here's an article that really caught my attention:

How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous.

Okay, I really saw myself in that. But beyond the catchy headline, it goes into an interesting place regarding how the human brain is craving "seeking" and how that drive is even more powerful than "getting". I love reading about how the human brain works, yep! Plus it explains how I manage to spend so much time here at the computer and yet get so damn little done.

Comments

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

This is the most interesting thing I have read all week! Thank you for sharing it.

[photoash.livejournal.com]

fascinating article thank you for the linkage!

It does make sense why we will sit here and look up and hours have passed! I find that wikipedia does that to me since it's all interlinked - i ended up reading about the different types of service dogs there was last night O_o heh randomly after looking up a song's title off St. Pepper's lonely hearts club cd.

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

i so linked to that same article yesterday! fabu isn't it?

google is going to totally be the end of civilisation [*nods*]

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I've mentioned, lots, that once upon a time I used to call my dad and say, "Hey, dad, what's the name of this film, it has Fred Astaire, and the girl's wearing a green gown, and they're in Atlantic City and he's trying to win a bet from this other guy..." But now I just go to the internet. So much for conversations with your loved ones!

[teldave.livejournal.com]

So! It's our dopamine fix! We're addicts!

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

That applies to me *way* beyond my use of electronics. I mean, chocolate cake never tastes as good as my anticipation of it imagines it will.

[scarlet-malfoy.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just so you know, I can't stop thinking about this article, and I even forgot who posted this, so I just spent a long time going back in my flist to find it and let you know. I really think this article has changed my life a little, at least in the way I understand how it all works. I can apply this not just to the internet... but pretty much in almost every aspect of my life. It's... unnerving and insane. Just. Wow. lol... Thanks for posting it!

[lookfar.livejournal.com]

Did you see that interesting thingie in the NY times a few days ago about guilt, shame and restitution? Basically, kids do okay with a smattering of guilt, especially if they are impulsive because it slows that down, but moreso if they are taught the concept of restitution, that is, guilt means you have to fix something rather than guilt is your punishment so you should just suffer.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

No, I missed that one. *scurries to check it out*