"UCSF neurobiologist Thomas Lewis
claims that if we're not careful, we can trick a part of our brain into
thinking that we're having a real social interaction--something crucial
and ancient for human survival--when we actually aren't. This leads to
a stressful (but subconscious) cognitive dissonance, where we're
getting some of what the brain thinks it needs, but not enough to fill
that
whatever-ineffable-thing-is-scientists-still-haven't-completely-nailed-but-might-be-smell.
He didn't make this claim about Twitter... I attended his talk at The
Conference on World Affairs, and he was addressing e-mail, chat, and
even television (brain recognizes it's looking at "people", and feels
it must be having a social connection (GOOD), but yet it knows
something's missing (BAD)." (Source Missing)

Anyone see the connection between this and pornography?

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