human+body

toc Read here about the human body and its role in perceiving and comprehending issues of scale.

=Overview= The human body is critical to scale studies because it is
 * container of our human being, within the boundary of which we experience our own intimate scale.
 * enabler of the emergence of our human being, which in turn is the entity that experiences scale.
 * maintainer of its own physical existence, a process that entails scenarios operating at multiple scales.
 * enabler of its own reproduction via sex, thus creating an aggregated scale of multiple human bodies.
 * a primary anchor point against which we compare any experience
 * locus of our human consciousness

Human Organs
The human body consists of about 300 organs that are considered in the study of scale as follows: include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="receptor" limit="1000"
 * the characteristics of our bodies is used to comprehend units: length of our arms to comprehend length, mass of our bodies to comprehend mass and so on.See Vitruvian man.
 * the brain is the key enabler of conscious report, it participates critically in enabling the measurement, comparison and reporting on scale. See attention or human brain.
 * our perceptual system receives information about the environment via our receptors.	See receptor, or see pages on specific receptors:

Human Perception
Human sensory perception is mediated by the human sensory fabrics, complex biological organs that integrate receptors and processors. For more information see receptor.

Human Growth
A human life is exponential by its very nature. Everyone without exception was born as a fertilized egg, and embarked on a journey to adulthood as a free blastocyst, attached blastocyst, embryo, then fetus, doubling in size over and over again.

=Links and References= Click below for other pages about the human scale: include component="pageList" hideInternal="true" tag="human scale" limit="100"