Philosophy Wire: Lazy…

Society has encouraged people to be more physically active, yet we are actually becoming less active. This new study offers a possible explanation: Our brains may be innately attracted to sedentary behavior. Electroencephalograms showed that test subjects had to summon extra brain resources when trying to avoid physical inactivity. [1] It is true that being active requires effort. But being inactive requires more. Look at those people running. How difficult it must be. Sweating. Gasping for air. Increasing speed. Overcoming obstacles. They think of nothing. They are not even themselves. They just run. Look at those people sitting on the bench. Thinking of everything. Pondering their existence. Fighting with their inner self. Wandering in the shadows of their dasein. Look at those people running. How easy...

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Philosophy Wire: Ecology. Primitive. "Do something".

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-03-31]: Spending billions to kill a fish, so as to keep the "balance" of the ecosystem. [1] Had we been "primitive" we would simply eat them. And SAVE billions! But now we are "progressed". We feel we need to "do something". (Feyerabend knew what he was talking about) We need to be "ecologists". Because we are not.

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