Human Extension in M-Dimensions

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 He highlights the importance of M-dimensional thinking with respect to human-social reality in contrast to the outdated two-dimensional evolutionary paradigm of the Darwinian variety.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.