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    The Science of Investigation: Working with Equations -- Book 2, The Human Equation Toolkit
    The Science of Investigation: Working with Equations -- Book 2, The Human Equation Toolkit
    The Science of Investigation: Working with Equations -- Book 2, The Human Equation Toolkit
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    The Science of Investigation: Working with Equations -- Book 2, The Human Equation Toolkit

    By Wayne Constantineau and Eric McLuhan

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    The second of five books in the groundbreaking new series The Human Equation Toolkit.

    In Book 1 of The Human Equation Toolkit series, mime Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four positions of humans -- standing, lying down, sitting, and kneeling -- as the basis of all developments in culture, science, activity, and media. Now, in Book 2 of the series, they "do the math," giving us a generic equation for reconciling pairs of opposites by emphasizing differences, and for unifying diverse elements by stressing sameness -- creating a tool for investigating and transcending human development.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBPS Books
    Release dateJul 23, 2012
    ISBN9781927483336
    The Science of Investigation: Working with Equations -- Book 2, The Human Equation Toolkit
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    Wayne Constantineau

    The late Wayne Constantineau was a mime and scholar who left behind him, at his death in 2006, his studies on mime and the insights of Marshall McLuhan. Eric McLuhan, who is bringing these studies to fruition in The Human Equation Toolkit, is also the author of Laws of Media (written with Marshall McLuhan), Electric Language, and The Role of Thunder in Finnegans Wake. He is also the editor of several collections of his father's work.

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      The Science of Investigation - Wayne Constantineau

      Introduction

      The human organism uses only four basic postures. Check this for yourself. You can stand, lie, sit, or kneel. The complete set of four exhibits an inner balance, or harmony, such that the relation between two of the elements echoes the relation between the other two: expressed A is to B as C is to D. In the case of the postures, the relationships can be seen visually in ninety-degree flips.

      Lying down is standing flipped ninety degrees.

      Squatting is kneeling flipped ninety degrees.

      So A is to B as C is to D:

      Posture is one corner of a larger picture. The human organism has exactly four modes of action. You can contract your muscles isometrically. You can displace (move, walk, roll, etc.). You can articulate (bend fingers, arm, etc.). You can assume a posture. With these, we do everything. The postures and modes of action are in use every moment of our life. This set of four also exhibits that inner harmony, as do all four corners of our modes of being.

      This Is the Human Equation

      All of our media imitate us; that is, they share the features of our modes of action—or we would not be able to use them. We created our media to be used by our modes of action. From the moment human biological evolution ended and human cultural development began, humanity has had to rely exclusively on its built-in modes of

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