David Epstein

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late in inside the box when I get into this primarily in the last chapter, when I get into this sort of more

Personal philosophical mode.

And I quote the MIT professor Sherry Turkel, who described our sort of virtual life a lot of our life as virtual these days.

And

She said that we are forever elsewhere.

Right.

It's like we're often not where our feet are.

We're not living where our feet are.

And that's okay.

That means that you and I can talk right now and do this.

But I think she means it in a more figurative sense, which is that our mind is always on something else.

Right now, my mind is on talking to you, but often

In the virtual world, our mind is somewhere else, not where we are.

And I think that's

A similar point to when you're looking for the horizon, right?

You're always looking for the horizon.

It takes away from the ability to live where your feet are at that moment, right?

When you're exercising, when you're dancing, something like that, you're living where your feet are.

And I think that's part of the reason that those experiences are

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