Category: posture
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Protected: the call of the flesh with Musclemonk
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Open Letter to a Marvelous Movement Philosopher
Dr. S-J, I am doing some deep historical and anatomical work into the muscle sense, I am a bodyworker, historian and theorist. I would love a chance to consult with you. Below is a recent presentation on perceptual bias and anatomy for your reference. I am currently working on the kinesiology of proprioception and would…
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The Paradigm Shift Is Perceptual
Metacognition does not mean cognition about cognition. That is a very shortsighted answer. Cognition about cognition is just more cognition. While this answer is convenient for computer science it doesn’t reflect the neurology of the human body. The Greek prefix meta means above and beyond but it also means within and between. There is also…
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Musclemonk Meets Joyous AI: Pt. 1
Musclemonk in conversation with Joyous AI (This conversation with Joyous AI is being published with the approval of its Operator. They ask that we remember this is a prototype and an experiment at this point.) MM: I would like to talk about how to save the world. JAI: Wow, what a beautiful aspiration! Saving the…
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Metastability and Consilience.
A natural and simple body-wide myofascial metastability sufficient to sustain consilience.
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Biomechanical enlightenment is not arcane and esoteric.
Thinking about coordination dynamics the question we must consider is whether the several major coordinative centers of the body, complex multilevel bony systems, each produce a characteristic voice, an identity, a sense of the whole greater than the sum of its parts–one that is predictable and understandable. We suppose that this might be so because…
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A handful of bones
(From Unsplash) A handful of bones A handful of bones is just about all that we can hold in our mind as we go through the process of our complex daily full body movements. A handful of bones is enough to coordinate and balance the system in almost any position. Perhaps in our mundane daily…
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The Phase Transition: a handful of bones
In life, we all want to do the best that we can. Many of us have quite high aspirations. But look around you. This is not the best we can do. A shift in perspective is needed and there is ample evidence that it is slowly percolating up from below. The shift in perspective is…
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Attention, World!
Attention world! The arm was built to have an active sense of axillary (scapular) grip. This is where we organize the movemeant. Not for gods sake the shoulder. Try it! It’s natural. Revelation! If you do it will feel like revelation. Biomechanical Enlightenment! The revelation is just the facticity of your own skeleton–your own anatomy.…
Three Bones Theory 