<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Max More</b> <<a href="mailto:max@maxmore.com">max@maxmore.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Maybe we should get T-shirts printed that say:<br>"EVIDENCE-BASED LIVING--TRY IT!"</blockquote><div><br>It is worth pointing out that a corallary of this is "Conscious Living" (or in the case of the list "Conscious posting"). These are not new ideas. I can easily follow such ideas back to those of Gurdjieff & Ouspensky (see wikipedia). They had an exercise called something like the "Stop exercise" where they would tell their students to stop and notice precisely what they were doing at an instant in time. Such a perspective may have common threads in such philosophies as Zen and/or Buddhism.
<br><br>Many list problems can be related to "engaging fingers before engaging brain".<br></div><br></div>Robert<br>