ALT methodical                                                           sounds our body chooses to silence—                                              its fantastical streamlining of order,                                  this chaos we have sown.                                 Stimuli drowning us always    (77) This understanding accords with scientific knowledge about information processing such as the Shannon limit, similar to the idea of bandwidth. In terms of the body, it follows that the total available sensory input of reality is compressed and altered—replaced with a biased image—by the biological processing limits of the human nervous system. By consistently emphasizing embodiment’s role in lived experience, Fomon orients readers towards a shared sense of humanity as a distributed physical presence, intertwined with our surroundings at multiple scales: cells and molecules; particles and waves; food webs and capital markets.