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In every sci-fi movie, you will ever see, there will be these highly intelligent beings with the ugliest looking, emaciated bodies, and the largest, gargantuan skull you will ever see. Remember Indiana Jones in the Adventure of the something-something Skull? How about Jedi Master Zorro in Star Wars – that same weasel-ish, little body, and that humongous head, right? There’s a lot of truth in this, at least theoretically. Intelligence can be defined as doing more work with less effort. So when people start getting too intelligent, they tend to expend less physical effort. Naturally, the body atrophies, while the brain gets larger. Does that mean no more of those skiing holidays? No NFL, no baseball, no physical sports, at all? It is true that virtual reality can give you all the excitement that physical sports give you. But 10 hours of virtual sports is not going to make your muscles stronger and your lungs full of fresh air, is it? Or so the naysayers say. However, think about this. From some points of view, all that fresh air, all that snow and mountain climbing and the grinding crunch of the ball hitting the bat – that is just virtual reality. That reality is just a lot of brain sensations, with no real way to prove that those are coming from outside you, or whatever. Those brain sensations are making you run, jump, dive, make your muscles grow, and breathe fresh air. So why not do the same thing in digital virtual reality? You don’t have to sit at a console to enjoy digital VR, anymore. You can run, jump, dive, make your muscles grow, breathe fresh air – in short, do everything that you can do in physical sports and still do the whole thing, “virtually.”