Introduction: Balance at the Core

Abstract

Here we show how each of these different modes of problem-solving tends to “balance up” its constructions. In order to unify them, we use the idea of “balancing feedback.” We draw a few simple communication diagrams for senders and receivers that show how feedback works in these compositions. In the Sender-Receiver diagrams we locate a common center of information transference located at a fulcrum on a balance beam or on a lever, at an equals sign, and at a verb. We show how each of these compositions features balancing in similar ways. The act of balancing is first and foremost a bodily action of adjustment to changing conditions in the physical world, so we feature a theory of learning sometimes called “embodied knowledge.”