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What does it "mine"?
"Dopamine helps control our alertness and attention. It stimulate curiosity, the ability to learn, imagination, creativity, and sexual drive...the brain releases this transmitter whenever we desire something or someone...(my desire, in a biological sense, reawakened?)...Under its influence we feel motivated, optimistic, and full of self-confidence...enables us to feel euphoria...feel a surge of happiness, a joyful and excited...it makes us aware of particularly interesting situations...to remember good experiences - dopamine supports learning. (!!)...dopamine encourages the creation of new connections in the brain. Desire and understanding are very closely linked. Desire makes us smart, and without it, learning is difficult...
...The union of curiosity and desire that dopamine creates in the brain is also the root of creativity...Jean-Paul Sartre wrote his last books in an artificially induced surge of creativity. Facing encroaching blindness, the aging French philosopher took amphetamines, drugs that raise the dopamine level, in an attempt to win the race against time...
...in a milder form, these feelings stimulate creativity. They enable us to see connections that are otherwise hidden and to combine things that have never been brought together...Mood, then, influences mental ability...happiness and reason are not mutually exclusive...Students who can laugh and are comfortable in class learn more easily."

The Science of Happiness
Stefan Klein, PhD