It always seemed like a mutation of whatever lobe or gland makes us interested in the arcana of computer systems, or makes kids get obsessive about dinosaurs.

It always seemed like a mutation of whatever lobe or gland makes us interested in the arcana of computer systems, or makes kids get obsessive about dinosaurs. They have some kind of construct that generates happiness when they have some secret and/or contrarian knowledge. it's just disconnected from the actual truth value of that "knowledge."