The list below describes the subject matter that has been or will be posted on this website. The list is in subject order rather than date order and, where a post on the subject has been made, a link is provided. If you are new to this website and wish to catch up, or if you want to refer back to a post, then please use these links.
- Evolution
- Schrodinger’s Other Paradox
- Basic Theory of Evolution
- Individual Level Natural Selection
- Kin Level Natural Selection
- Group Level Natural Selection
- The Influence of Group Level Natural Selection on Humanity
- Species and Ecosystem Level Natural Selection
- The Human Economy
- Is Mankind Still Evolving? – A Summary
- Human Needs
- The Hierarchy of Needs Reviewed
- Contra-needs and Existentialism
- The Tree of Needs
- Satisfiers and Contra-satisfiers
- Individuals, Generations, Age-groups, and the Prioritisation of Needs
- Sense, Order and Meaning
- Anti-social Needs and Behaviour
- Resources, Poverty and Wellbeing
- Obstacles to Wellbeing in the West
- Knowledge, Beliefs and Predispositions
- Feedback Loops and Emergent Properties
- Consciousness
- Schemata, Memes and Paradigms (1)
- The Acquisition of Knowledge
- Schemata, Memes and Paradigms (2)
- Why Consistency of Knowledge is Important
- Hereditary Predispositions, Personality and Beliefs
- Knowledge and Utility
- Improving our Knowledge of Human Nature
- Decision Making and Behaviour
- Do we have Free Will?
- Evidence in Favour of Free Will and the Consequences of its Denial
- How Needs and Contra-needs Motivate us
- Emotions
- Basic Emotions
- Emotions and Decision Making
- The Evaluation of Satisfiers and Contra-satisfiers
- The Evaluation of Resources and Risk/Benefit/Cost Assessment
- The Behavioural Loop or Cycle
- The Creative Process and Decision Making
- Causality and Behavioural Strategies
- Worldviews and Objective Reality
- Perspectivism and Poly-perspectivism
- Maintaining Independence of Mind
- Regret
- Causality and Systems Science
- Causality in More Detail
- General Systems Theory
- Further Principles of General Systems Theory
- Principles of Self-Maintaining Systems
- The Systems Approach to Communication
- Systems Theory from a Cognitive and Physicalist Perspective (pdf)
- How to Gain Understanding
- A Systems Model of Human Organisation (Part 1)
- A Systems Model of Human Organisation (Part 2)
- A Systems Model of Human Organisation (Part 3)
- Identifying Desirable Changes in Human Organisation
- Quality of Decision-making and Command (Part 1)
- Quality of Decision-making and Command (Part 2)
- Quality of Implementation of Commands
- Top-down and Bottom-up Representation
- How Organisations and Hierarchies Arise
- An Introduction to Organisations
- Competition and Co-operation
- How Organisations & Hierarchies Emerge
- Motivators
- Individual Response to Motivators
- Communication, Assembly & Organisation
- Belief System Emergence – Introduction
- Belief System Emergence – Culture
- Belief System Emergence – Ideology
- Hierarchy Emergence – Introduction
- Why We Follow a Leader
- Power
- Trading Status for Support & Vice Versa
- The Acquisition of Status
- How Organisations & Hierarchies Behave
- Organisational Needs
- Why Hierarchy is Necessary in Organisations
- Organisational Motivators, Satisfiers and Decisions
- How Organisational Size Affects Efficiency
- Knowledge, Language and Organisational Culture
- Culture, Sub-cultures and Cultural Evolution
- Progressive and Conservative Sub-cultures
- National Cultural Evolution
- Maintaining Hierarchies and Social Status
- Sectors
- Overview of Past and Present Sectors
- How Sectors are Inter-related and Overview of Emerging Sectors
- The Role of Art
- Social Systems Theory
- Are the Social Sciences Scientific?
- Basic Social Systems Theory
- Social Interactions (Part 1)
- Social Interactions (Part 2)
- Language
- Social Systems Theory in Practice – An Example (Part 1)
- Social Systems Theory in Practice – An Example (Part 2)
- Social Systems Theory and Practical Problem Solving (pdf)
- Why Organisations and Hierarchies Fail
- Religion
- Politics
- Commerce
- Existential Threats
- Ethics
- Obstacles to Our Progress and How to Overcome Them