1. Out of Africa: From whence comes our "minds" The “roots” of humanity?

2. Feelings/Importance hate-love relationship with s & t –progress and enslavement curiosity lack of “knowledge about; above my head are there limits; playing God

3. Spiritual Journeys

4. Cultural Journeys hunting and gathering

5. Cultural Journeys a neolithic revolution

6. Cultural Journeys an agricultural revolution

7. Cultural Journeys an industrial revolution

8. Intellectual Journeys Pre Greek?

9. Intellectual Journeys Greek Thought Platonic- changing nature must be brought to the “ideal” Aristotelian - intricate, ordered, unique, purposeful Stoicism - gaia and divine Epicurean - the physical

10. Intellectual Journeys Medieval Thoughts Structured Willed Harmonious Static Kinship

11. Intellectual Journeys Scientific thoughts human “uncentered” vast limitless physical knowable masterable mechanical material Francis Bacon http://www.classicallibrary.org/bacon/ http://www.classicallibrary.org/bacon/

12. Intellectual Journeys Technological thoughts ?

13. Intellectual Journeys Technological thoughts “academic fields” –genetic engineering –medical technology, environmental chemistry – nuclear energy – social science –political science – computer science –environmental science science is authoritative

14. Intellectual Journeys Technological thoughts S & T are complex Not very interesting Difficult to understand Resistance to explanation galaxies, quarks, proteins, ecosystems

15. Biological Journeys? sapiens -1 million years erectus - 3 million years pre - rest 30 - 35 million years ?s we share 47% of our genes with yeast - Goodenough 2000

16. Biological Journeys? Most important, the Out of Africa model indicates that the human species-and the radical changes it has brought about on land, sea and air - is in fact a very recent phenomenon in the saga of life on earth. Latecomers to the planet, humans are an evolutionary "work in progress," whose final outcome is yet to be determined. William F. Allman U.S. News & World Report, Sept 16, 1991 v111 n12 p53(8

17. Integrated Journeys Running with the Buffalo Peter Mayer, Elements "Is this not like some great body which is being born - with its limbs, its nervous system, its perceptive organs, its memory - the body in fact of that great living Thing which had to come to fulfill the ambitions aroused in the reflective being by the newly acquired consciousness ?” Pierre Tielhard de Chardin "What, in fact, do we see happening in the modern paroxysm? It has been stated over and over again. Through the discovery yesterday of the railway, the motor car and the aeroplane, the physical influence of each man, formerly restricted to a few miles, now extends to hundreds of leagues or more. Better still: thanks to the prodigious biological event represented by the discovery of electromagnetic waves, each individual finds himself henceforth (actively and passively) simultaneously present, over land and sea, in every corner of the earth." Pierre Tielhard de Chardin On to the Noosphere

18. Conclusions? ?

19. Next week What is science and the Scientific Method? Does science shape reality?: Models of the Scientific WorldDoes science shape reality?: Models of the Scientific World Project and Course Topic Planning Session 2 Project and Course Topic Planning Session