Well, it's entirely anecdotal, but there's a book devoted to the walking habits of many prestigious philosophers and other artists and thinkers: https://www.ver

Well, it's entirely anecdotal, but there's a book devoted to the walking habits of many prestigious philosophers and other artists and thinkers: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1865-a-philosophy-of-walking https://www.versobooks.com/books/1865-a-philosophy-of-walkin.... Sure, any conclusions you can draw from this don't have the rigor of those drawn from carefully accumulated scientific observations and controlled experiments...but it's also possible to be such a stingy devotee of scientism that it paralyzes you and divorces you from truths that are otherwise intuitive and simply a part of being human. If you try to incorporate exercise into your daily routine you'll also have a direct experience of its benefits. We don't necessarily need science for everything and we also don't need to establish proofs for everything. A clouded, unflagging allegiance to the scientific method is what distinguishes a dogmatic acolyte from a rational thinker (just as it does the religious fanatic and the rational practitioner)--it's just as important to circumscribe the space of the actual utility of science just as much as it is to stand firmly by its methodological principles.