Sometime when I was an undergraduate, I thought that I had made a major intellectual breakthrough. I managed to justify, on intellectual-philosophical terms, that I should not exercise. Ever. It was because I came to believe that the body was a mere husk, a vessel for consciousness. Why take care of the body when I would be leaving it to occupy a new hybrid body with the coming of The Singularity? And so I decided that I would only exercise one muscle, the one muscle that mattered and made us...
Published on May 22, 2012 02:26