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

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