1. My Brain and Me:

Parallel (associative) and Sequential (active) circular reactions?

2. Brains as Processes:

How do collections of neurons implement mental processes?

3. Techniques:

How we know what we know about brains?

4. World Views:

All species see the world so differently.

5. Lizard Brains:

Attention and Emotions: sex, fear, etc.

6. Mammalian Brains:

Perception and Action.

7. Mammalian Brains:

Feelings and Thoughts

8. Fast and Slow Systems

Survival benefits of fast brains.

9. Seeing Other Minds:

Animals co-operate and compete.

10. Group Cooperation:

Altruism, self-interest and moral calculus.

11. Group Competition:

Primate aggression to ‘outsiders’.

12. Early Communication:

Use of other signals, smell, body, cries,

13. Tools and Culture:

Tool use and culture in other animals.

14. Rituals and Songs:

Dance and song as language precursors.

15. Self-Awareness:

How could non-humans be self-aware?

16. Awareness of Death:

Occurs in animals, seen in archaeology.

17. Human Brains:

Cerebral cortex and longer chains, etc.

18. Brain Regions:

Centres for language and self-control, etc.

19. Language and Stories:

Imperatives and Narratives.

20. Concepts/Abstraction:

Social constructs and illusion (maya).

21. Reason:

Induction and deduction.

22. Primitive Physics:

3D, steady time, colours, causal, agents etc

23. Human Altruism:

How do humans behave altruistically?

24. Intelligence:

Does it matter?  What influences it?

25. Emotional Growth:

Effects of early years?

26. Mental Development:

Imitation, Concrete, Abstract phases

27. Emotional Maturity:

Beyond simple rules and fixed structures?

28. Human Violence:

Is violence intrinsic, or is it cultural?

29. Racism:

Our expanding circle of concern.

30. Psycho/Sociopaths

How do we treat unfeeling people?

31. Gender Realities:

Different benefits and costs in reproduction.

32. Heterosexuality:

Including reproductive strategies?

33. Homosexuality:

How natural is homosexuality?

34. Gender Illusions:

Real differences between men and women?

35. Mental Errors:

The many ways we deceive ourselves?

36. Mental Illness:

Can we honestly identify treat it?

37. Social Norms

How we construct and change our realities?

38. Eccentrics and Others:

How do we cope as outsiders in society?

39. Mind Affecting Drugs:

Do psychedelics and so on give us insights?

40. Addictions:

Are these genetic, environmental or moral?

41. Mystical Experiences:

How do we explain mystical experiences?

42. Death Experiences:

How we explain near death experiences?

43. Connection and Hope:

Do we have real objective needs for these?

44. Mental Education:

How we rise above the limitations we see?

45. Enhancing our Brains:

Can drugs or embedded chips, enhance us?

46. Artificial Intelligence:

Can computers ever think and be conscious?

47. Extra-terrestrial Life:

Is there other intelligent life in the universe?