How the Body Really Works! (Paperback)

While we are on the inside looking out at the physical world, we are attached to a physical body that is a part of that world. We have to move our physical body through the physical reality it occupies, and we have to do so safely if we are to survive. How does the outside world get inside, into our head and how do we then command our body to adjust itself so that we move effectively in the physical world of which it is a part? We stand bouncing a basketball on the foul line of a basketball court. Fifteen feet in front of us, and ten feet above the ground, is a backboard with an attached circular hoop. That hoop, at eighteen inches, is only slightly larger than the ball we are bouncing, and the center point of the hoop is exactly fifteen inches away from the backboard. How can we see something at that distance? How does the physical reality of the hoop travel the intervening distance and get into our head? How do we command our muscles to move in such a way that we can make the ball we are bouncing move through the intervening space in a manner that it can drop through the hoop? More to the point, what is it about what goes on in our head that allows us to make the decision to show up at the basketball court and shoot the hoop in the first place? How the Body Really Works explains how we evolved to be what we are, animate matter that is not only ambulatory, that can not only move within the environment, but can do so successfully, and, in addition, can do so with sentience, in a manner that allows us to alter the environment to our benefit.