Abstract
Chapter 1 offers general definitions of ‘extension’ to introduce readers to a ‘new science’ of Human Extension. Sandstrom frames the term as a valid anthropic principle that opposes socio-cultural evolution and serves as a vehicle for peace-making and development. He highlights the importance of M-dimensional thinking with respect to human-social reality in contrast to the outdated two-dimensional evolutionary paradigm of the Darwinian variety. ‘Human Extension in M-Dimensions’gives several reasons for the new science, including overcoming the civilisational racism of Social Darwinism, and highlights the work done already using ‘extension’ logic in agriculture and education, which have reached millions of people worldwide.
Whence did the wond’rous mystic art arise,
Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes?
That we by tracing magic lines are taught,
How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
A. Pope1
In Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, 1967: 48.
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‘For the Nuu-chah-nulth and other indigenous peoples around the world the full title of Darwin’s work — On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life — had unfortunate implications’ (E. Richard Atleo, Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis. UBC Press, 2012: 2).
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Sandstrom, G. (2014). Human Extension in M-Dimensions. In: Human Extension: An Alternative to Evolutionism, Creationism and Intelligent Design. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137464897_2
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