Big Questions

As we accelerate our ability to hack the laws of natural selection, where is this leading us, and where do we want and/or should go?

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Big Picture

Big Picture / Human Life

Stages in the Development of Human Life on Earth

• Human Evolution: Augmyntia (fiction by sp)
  • pro-social evolution of goodness (David Sloan Wilson)
• Human Heredity
  • Heredity in Humans
  • The nature and origin of human races
    • Aspects of racial diversity
    • Measures of race
    • The races of mankind

Walk a mile in my shoes.

The Last White Man: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid

Health & Disease

• Human Body
• Human Health and Wellness
• Human Diseases
• Practice of Medicine and the Care of Health
  • accuracy, quality, productivity: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  • emergency medicine: War Doctor by David Nott
  • rehabilitation from stroke: Myomo

Human Behavior and Experience

What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron

Where am I going to be free to be who I am?

• Human Nature & Experience
  • Factors working for/against human behavior and experience
  • Stages in the development of human behavior
    • General aspects
    • Prenatal growth and development
    • Birth
    • Infancy (the first 18 months)
    • Early childhood and childhood (1 to 12 years)
    • ADOLESCENCE (puberty to adulthood)
    • Young adulthood & maturity: Your Turn by Julie Lythcott-Haims
    • Old-age and death
• Attention, Sensation, Perception
• Internal states affecting behavior and conscious experience
  • Motivation: needs, desires, achievement, anxiety, aggression, sex
    • Sex and Sexuality:
      • conversion therapy: Boy Erased
      • gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns: What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
      • WOMEN & GIRLS
    • Procrastination: How to Stop Procrastinating by S.J. Scott
  • Emotion
  • Transient States:
    • Sleep
    • Dreams: The Oracle of Night by Sidarta Ribeiro
    • Altered states of consciousness:
      • hypnosis: Reality Is Plastic by Anthony Jacquin
      • THOUGHT
    • Fatigue
    • Altered body chemistry
• Capacities and Inclinations
• Learning and Thinking
  • Diverse theories of human learning
  • Psychomotor learning
  • Perceptual learning
  • Conceptual learning and concept formation
  • Memory
    • Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering by Scott A. Small
  • THOUGHT & THINKING
• Personality and the Self
  • Definitions of personality
  • Measurement of personality
  • Personality functioning and adjustment
  • Mental disorders

  
Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter by John Hendrickson
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering by Scott A. Small