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True, but few people would argue watching TV for 6 hours every day is part of a healthy, active lifestyle. Physically, that's about the same as writing softwar
by kd5bjo 11y ago
True, but few people would argue watching TV for 6 hours every day is part of a healthy, active lifestyle. Physically, that's about the same as writing software.
- tertius 11y agoConsuming vs. producing, even if sitting still, is different physiologically.
- wavefunction 11y agoDo you have some evidence to back that up?
- aws_ls 11y agoIts just an intuitive hypothesis. And point to note is that ever since we started doing agriculture, and that was around 20,000 years ago. We started to have more idle time for creating tools and arts, in general more sedentary than hunting/gathering. Even the works of mathematicians since several centuries ago, I can imagine, would have implied being sedentary while they worked. So software is just the latest in that chain of things since we started doing agriculture.
- tertius 11y agoCertainly, we can start with the neurological effect of watching TV. http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/5jcl/5JCL59.htm http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/5jcl/5JCL59.htm