13.8 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
13.8 Billion Years Ago: First Millisecond
Highly Speculative. An irrational idea rationally deduced.
How predetermined are our choices?
13.8 Billion Years Ago: First Millisecond
Mostly speculative. Still an irrational idea rationally deduced.
13.8 Billion Years Ago: First Millisecond
A bit speculative. Still an irrational idea rationally deduced but with some empirical data.
What separates humans from animals.
13.8 Billion Years Ago: First Millisecond
A bit speculative. Still an irrational idea rationally deduced but with some empirical data.
13.8 Billion Years Ago: First Hour
A bit speculative. Still an irrational idea rationally deduced but with some empirical data.
13.7 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
13.6 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
Population III Stars: Heavier Elements
13.59 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
Population II Stars: Heavy Element Synthesis
13.4 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
About 13.39 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
10 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
Population I Stars: Like our Sun
10 Billion Years Ago
Verified: 10 to 7 Billion Years Ago
Interstellar Clouds: Organic Molecules
4.6 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
4.5 Billion Years Ago
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
4.48 Billion Years Ago
4.49 to 4.6 Billion Years Ago
First Atmosphere: Hydrogen & Helium
4.45 Billion Years Ago
Spedulative guess: 4.2 to 4.4 Billion Years Ago
Inorganic Precursors to Organic Molecules
4.44 Billion Years Ago
About 60 million years after Earth forms.
4.3 Billion Years Ago
4.5 to 4 Billion Years Ago
Second Atmosphere: Carbon Dioxide & Nitrogen
4.2 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
Self-replication emerges
First Life: Self-Replicating Molecules
4.2 Billion Years Ago
4 to 4.4 Billion Years Ago
First Oceans: Fresh Water
4.1 Billion Years Ago (+/- 200 milion)
Self-sustaining chemical reactions
4.1 Billion Years Ago
Spedulative guess: 4 to 4.4 Billion Years Ago
Chemical Evolution of Organic Molecules
4 Billion Years Ago
Spedulative guess: 3.9 to 4.1 Billion Years Ago
Formation of Prebiotic Microenvironments
3.9 Billion Years Ago
Spedulative guess: 3.8 to 4.1 Billion Years Ago
3.9 Billion years ago (+/- 100 million)
The engine gets wrapped in a bubble.
3.85 Billion Years Ago (before LUCA)
Leading Hypothesis: Molecules drifted; Chemistry binds.
3.75 Billion years ago (+/- 100 million)
DNA, Ribosomes, and ATP
LUCA: Last Universal Common Ancestor
3.73 Billion Years Ago (after LUCA)
Membrane and metabolic diversity.
3.73 Billion Years Ago (shortly after LUCA)
Ether-linked membranes and distinct genetic machinery
~3.72 Billion Years Ago (after prokaryotes)
Mechanical sensitivity to pressure and membrane stretch
Touch: Life Learns to Feel Force
~3.7 Billion years ago (shortly after LUCA)
Peptidoglycan cell wall and Ester-linked lipids
~3.7 Billion Years Ago (+/- 100 million)
Virus: Riboviria (Early RNA replicators)
3.5 Billion Years Ago
3.5 to 2.5 Billion Years Ago
Second Oceans: From Fresh to Salty
3.42 Billion BCE
3.42 to 3.7 Billion BCE
Oldest Known Fossil-Microorganisms
~3.2 Billion Years Ago (+/- 200 million)
The HK97-Fold (Steel Pouch)
Bacteriophage → Duplodnaviria
~3 Billion years ago
Photosynthetic experiments
Bacteria Photosynthesis begins
~2.75 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
double jelly-roll capsid DNA viruses
2.7 Billion Years Ago
2.7 to 2.6 BYA
Cyanobacteria: Sun Energy as Food!
~2.5 Billion years ago (+/- 100 million)
Photosynthetic Specialization Emerges
Bacteria cyanobacteria & oxygenic photosynthesis
2.4 Billion Years Ago (+/- 300 million years)
The First True Eukaryotes
2.4 Billion Years Ago
2.4 BYA to about 540 MYA
Third Atmosphere: Oxygen Atmosphere
~2.4 Billion years ago (+/- 100 million)
Bacteria are added to eukaryote ancestor cells
Bacterial Endosymbiosis: Origin of Eukaryotes
~2.2 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
Oxygen-respiring bacteria diversify
Bacteria Aerobic metabolism expands
2 Billion Years Ago (+/- 100 million years)
Nucleus and internal organelles
~1.75 billion years ago (+/- 50 million)
Last Eukaryote Common Ancestor
LECA: Likely Sexual Reproduction
~1.75 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
single-stranded DNA viruses
1.65 Billion Yeas Ago (+/- 50 million)
Life that later leads to these kingdoms separates.
Plant Ancestors Split from Animal and Fungi Ancestors
~1.55 Billion Years Ago (+/- 5 million)
Two "Anterior" Flagella - plant rowboats
Bikonts: Plant Ancestors Split Off Again (Front-Pull Pioneers)
1.5 Billion Years Ago (+/- 100 million years)
Chloroplast refinement, chlorophyll variants
Red-Green Algae Ancestors Split
~1.3 Billion Years Ago (+/- 100 million)
Transition to a Single Flagellum
Unikonts: Single-Motor flagella Reform
~1.3 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
Bacteria Diversify: Major modern phyla
~1.25 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
Stitch themselves permanently into the host’s genome
Retroviruses (within Riboviria)
~1.2 Billion Years Ago (+/- 300 million)
Cytoplasmic streaming and vesicle transport
Intracellular Flow and Nutrient Exchange
~1.15 Billion Years Ago (+/- 50 million)
12 unique amino acids + glycogen energy storage + True Posterior Flagellum
Opisthokonts: True Posterior Flagellum
~1.1 Billion Years Ago (inferred, +/- 100 million)
Small motile gamete and larger nutrient-rich gamete
Oogamy: Early Gamete Specialization Before Animals
~1 Billion years ago (+/- 200 million)
Extreme genetic theft
Giant viruses (within Varidnaviria)
~950 Million Years Ago (+/- 50 million)
External digestion + chitin cell walls
Fungi Ancestors Split Off: (aquatic Holomycota)
~750 Million Years Ago (+/- 50 million)
Animal Ancestors Split Off: Cadherin Cell Glue (Holozoa)
640 Million Years Ago (+/- 20 million)
Stable cell adhesion and tissue specialization
First Multicellular Animals
635-600 Million Years Ago
Proto-brain; Pre-brain memory; Presentient.
Presentient Animals Emerge: The Ediacaran Prelude
~620 Million Years Ago (+/- 20 million)
tissue-level reproduction
Chemoreception: Taste and Smell Emerge
~600 Million years ago (+/- 20 million)
Sperm-like reproduction to spread seed to new soil.
First True Fungi: Chytrids (and living fossils)
555 Million Years Ago (+/- 5 million)
Nerve nets and muscle cells
First True Animals – Comb Jellyfish
~550 Million Years Ago (+/- 25 million)
Diffusion and body-cavity circulation
Internal Fluid Transport in Early Animals
545 Million Years Ago (after through-gut digestion: mouth/anus)
Circulatory fluid transport (veins)
True Circulatory Systems: Blood Veins
540 Mya
Vision Emerges; Proto-Simple Brains; Pre-vertebrate Cord.
Vision Emerges: The Pre-fish Chordates
530 Million BCE
530 to 520 Million Years Ago
520 Million Years Ago
First Simple Brains; Proto-Short-Term Memory; Simple Sentience.
520 Million BCE
Simple Brains; Proto-Short-Term Memory; Simple Sentience.
Simple Sentience Settles: Haikouichthys
510 Million BCE
Not a fish ancestor, not our ancestor.
Simple Cephalopod Sentience Evolves
~480 MYA (+/- 20 million)
Filamentous growth (hyphae); terrestrial colonization
470 Million Years Ago (+/- 10 million)
Early water transport
Embryophytes: First True Plants
~450 Million years ago (+/- 10 million)
Arbuscular mycorrhizae (Glomeromycota symbiosis)
Fungal Underground Alliance
425 Million Years Ago
425 MYA (+/- 15 Million Years)
Keratin Genes & the Rise of Scales in Fish
~425 Million years ago (+/- 25 million)
Ascomycota and Basidiomycota Split
Fungal Great Split: Ascomycota & Basidiomycota
~420 MYA (+/- 20 million)
Large upright fungal structures (e.g., Prototaxites)
Fungal Giants of the Devonian
Oldest Known Air Breather
Lungs Evolve: Lobe-Finned Fish and the Lungfish Ancestor
385 Million Years Ago (+/- 5 million years)
Secondary growth wood and deep roots
First True Trees: Spore Reproduction
~380 million years ago (± 15 million)
Air breathing lungs and lobed pectoral fins
The Senegal Bichir: A Living Fossil
375 Mya
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Simple Sentience.
Long-Term Memory Evolves: Tiktaalik
370 Mya
Land Hearing Emerges; Yet Larger Brains.
Land Hearing Emerges: Amphibians
~308 million years ago (+/- 5 million)
Naked seeds in cones (gymnosperm reproduction)
307 million years ago
2026 Discovery Pushing Back Herbivores
First Land Herbivore: Tyrannoroter heberti
~300 million years ago (± 10 million years)
Stem Selachians: Modern Sharks LCA
295 Million BCE
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Early Complex Sentience.
Early Complex Sentience Emerges: Dimetrodon
270 Million Years Ago (+/- 5 million years)
Efficient vascular networks inside leaves
Ginkgo biloba-like Trees: True Leaves
~270 million years ago (± 20 million years)
Increased light capture area
Ginkgo biloba — A Living Fossil in My Backyard
252 MYA (+/- 5 million years)
Needle morphology and resin canals
~252 MYA (Permian–Triassic boundary)
Massive fungal proliferation after extinction
Fungal Survivors of Extinction
Pangaea Super Continent Breakup
245 Million Years Ago
Erect hind-limb posture
Dinosauromorphs Emerge: Asilisaurus kongwe
243 Million Years Ago
Strengthened hip and shoulder architecture
240 Million Years Ago
Elongated hind limbs, better running, reduced forelimbs
XX/XY Sex System Emerges: A Tale of Mammalian Evolution
229 Million Years Ago (± 1.5 million)
Fully open hip socket (perforated acetabulum)
First True Dinosaur: Eoraptor lunensis.
225 million years ago (±5 million years)
When dinosaurs rose, our line quietly began.
Platypus–Ape Common Ancestor
203 Million BCE (+/- 3 million)
Differentiated teeth and true mammalian jaw
Morganucodon: An Early Mammalian
190 Million Years Ago (+/- 10 million years)
Parental care, brain plasticity, extended juvenile period
Early Play Evolves in Mammals
185 Million BCE
Placental nutrient transfer (in placentals)
Mammals: First Live Births
145 Million Years Ago (+/- 5 million years)
Rapid vascular transport
Modern Trees: Modern Leaves
South America Splits from Africa
By 130 Million Years Ago
Molecular analysis might push this back to 149 or maybe even 256 mya.
circa 125 Million BCE
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Complex Sentience; Likely Proto Self-aware.
Complex Sentience Settles: Eomaia scansoria
125 Million Years Ago
Expanded Limbic System, reward circuitry
Animal Vocabulary: Dozens of Words
~95 Million Years Ago (+/- 5 million)
Tall, fire-resistant, long-lived conifer specialization.
80 Million Years Ago (+/- 10 million years)
Enlarged neocortex
Higher Play Evolves in Social Mammals
66 Million BCE
Grasping hand and flexible ankles
Purgatorius — Earliest known proto-primate.
56 Million BCE (+/- 2 million)
Enhanced color perception, Diet-driven brain growth
Plesiadapis: First fruit-insect eaters.
Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean
50 Million BCE
Territory memory, where things are, hippocampus development
Early Self-Awareness: Miacis
32 Million Years Ago (+/- 2 million)
30 Million BCE
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Complex Sentience; Semi Self-awareness settles in.
Early Intelligence Emerges: Aegyptopithecus zeuxis
27 Million Years Ago (+/- 2 million)
Large neocortex, Coalition politics emerge
Baboons Branch Off: Old World Monkeys
20 Million Year Ago (+/- 2 Million Years)
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Complex Sentience; Maybe Self-aware; Likely Simple EI.
Genus Proconsul (Self-Awareness Settles)
18 Million Years Ago, ± 3 million years
Causal reasoning, Early prefrontal integration
Great Apes: Medicine Emerges
17 Million Years Ago, ± 1 million
Long-distance pair bonding, Fine motor control
Gibbons Branch Off: Genus Hylobates
16.5 Million Years Ago (+/- 2 Million Years)
Tool potential begins, Neocortical expansion
Emergence of the Great Apes (Great Apes LCA)
Lived 16 to 14 Million Years Ago
Prefrontal–limbic integration, Reading others, Modulating reaction
Genus Kenyapithecus: EI Emerges
circa 15 Million Years Ago
Inferior frontal gyrus homologues, Mirror neuron systems
Animal Vocabulary: Thousands of Words (The Great Apes)
14.5 Million Years Ago (+/- 2 million)
Limbic vocalization pathways, Breath control
By 14 Million Years Ago
Phenotype Variations
Skin Color Diversity Across and within Primate Species
Emerged 13 mya, extinct 9 to 7 mya
Cultural Transmission
Genus Dryopithecus: Cultural Transmission Emerges
Emerged 12.5 to 12 mya, extinct 8.5 to 7 mya.
Complex Brains; Long-Term Memory; Complex Sentience; Self-aware; Complex EI.
Orangutans Branch Off: Genus Sivapithecus
Emerged 10 mya, extinct 9.8 to 9 mya.
Ancestral Hominids (us, pre-split)
Gorillas Branch Off: Genus Nakalipithecus
9 Million Years Ago
Enhanced spatial mapping and endurance planning
Transition from Trees to Savannah Begins
Emerged 9 mya, extinct 100,000 BCE.
7.5 Million Years Ago
Advanced coalition politics and tool precursors
Chimpanzees Branch Off (CHLCA)
7 Million BCE
Partial bipedal posture + visual reorientation
Genus: Sahelanthropus (Walking Upright)
6 Million Years Ago (Maybe Us)
Femoral adaptation, Motor cortex recalibration
Lived 5.8 to 4.4 Million Years Ago (Maybe Us)
Reduced aggression, Reduced canine dimorphism
3.66 Million Years Ago
Hominin
Echoes of Early Steps: The Laetoli Footprints
3.4 Million Years Ago
cognitive sequencing + motor precision + future modeling
3.3 Million BCE (Hominins)
Prefrontal Cortex Expansion, Internal 3D modeling
Collective Learning Emerges
3 Million Years Ago (+/- 400,000 years)
2.9 Million BCI
Hominin, Us, From 4.2 to 2 MYA
2.7 Million Years Ago
Hominin, Not Us (2.7 to 1.2 million years ago)
Homo habilis: Our Intelligence Settles.
2 Million BCE
Hominids, Not Us (different branch)
Emergence of the Chimpanzee Family
2 Million Years Ago (Up to about 15,000 years ago)
Olduvai Gorge Site: A Glimpse into Early Organizational Behavior
Homo erectus: A True Omnivore
1.8 Million Years Ago (+/- 500,000 years)
Emergence of Early Hominin Shelters
Earliest Known Toothpicks
1.52 Million BCE
1.53 to 1.51 Million BCE
Oldest Modern Human-like Footprints
1.5 Million Years Ago (+/- 500,000 years)
1.2 Million BCE
Supported by DNA evidence.
Less Body Hair Emerges in Homo erectus
Homo antecessor: Earlier Modern Looks
770,000 BCE
from circa 770,000 BCE to circa 5700 BCE
Seasonal Settlements at Zhoukoudian site
Hyoid Bone: Speach Emerges
700,000 BCE
Highly speculative. Based on rational analysis of the great apes.
Hominin World Population: 2 Million (speculative)
Full Emotional Intelligence Emerges
Circa 640,000 Years Ago
Homo heidelbergensis on Earth from about 640,000 to 200,000 BCE.
First Clothes: Proto-Clothing and the Advent of Garments
Transcendental Intelligence Emerges
440,000 Years Ago (+/- 40,000 years)
430,000 BCE
On Earth from 430,000 to 29,000 BCE
Homo neanderthalensis: Verified True Symbolic Thought
335,000 BCE
Human, but probably not our human branch.
Homo naledi: A Likely Hybrid
Homo Sapiens: Advanced Transcendental Intelligence
300,000 BCE
500 to 30 Thousand BCE
Neanderthal-Denisovan Split
300,000 BCE
Africa; 300,000 to 500,000 years ago
300,000 BCE
Very speculative.
Hominin World Population: 2 Million (maybe)
300,000 Years Ago
Survived from about 300,000 to 125,000 years ago.
Homo rhodesiensis: A Hybrid Lesson
Before 290,000 BCE
Hominins; 290,000 to 700,000 years ago
Bhimbetka Petroglyphs, Cupules
Extinction: Homo heidelbergensis
150,000 BCE
200,000 to 150,000 BCE
Modern Human Looks and Brains
Homo longi: Rewriting Human Migration Narratives
125,000 BCE
125,000 to 60,000 BCE
Seasonal Settlements at Klasies River Caves
Extinction: Homo rhodesiensis
120,000 BCE
130,000 to 100,000 BCE
Many Early Out of Africa Migrations
Extinction: Gigantopithecus
Earliest Known Prepared Burial, “Mtoto”
70,000 BCE
Starting by 70,000 BCE
Successful Out of Africa Migration
World Population: 1.5 Million
70,000 BCE
circa 60 to 70 thousand BCE
The Sentinelese people on North Sentinel Island
65,000 BCE
Homo sapiens or an earlier Homo species
The Settlement of Australia
Extinction: Homo luzonensis
Before 64000 BCE
Upper Paleolithic
Neanderthal Art: Symbolic Thought
50,000 BCE
Speculative: 20 to more than 50 thousand years ago.
Cuban Underwater City: More Research Needed
48,000 BCE
58,000 to 48,000 BCE
Extinction: Homo floresiensis
48,000 BCE (+/- 2,000 years)
42,200 BCE
44,200 to 43,000 years old according to 24 radiocarbon tests
Lebombo bone: First Lunar Phase Counter
Phenotype Variation: Eye Shape and the Epicanthic Fold
circa 40,000 BCE
Spain & France
Upper Paleolithic Cave Art with Symbols
38,000 BCE
Extinction range: 38,000 BCE to 22,000 BCE
30,000 BCE
29 to 32 thousand years ago.
Czeck: Dolní Věstonice Community
By 25,000 Years Ago (+/- 10,000 years)
Modern Skin Color Variety Emerges
20,000 BCE
From circa 20,000 to 3,000 BCE
Seasonal Settlements at Franchthi Cave
Earliest Known Domesticated Animal: Dogs
18,000 BCE
15 to 20 Thousand Years Agao
Ukraine: Mezhyrich Community
Seasonal Settlements at Monte Verde
circa 11,500 BCE
Evidence of farming: rye seeds
10,000 BCE
Estimates range from 2 to 5 million
World Population: 4 Million
9,700 BCE
Start of "our" Holocene geological epoch
Start of heyday: circa 9600 BCE
Initial construction circa 11,000 BCE (13,000 years ago)
Göbekli Tepe Culture (11000 BCE to 8000 BCE)
The Domestication of Rice
8000 BCE
Genetic Mutation from the Neolithic Era
Phenotype Variation: Blue Eyes
circa 8000 BCE (speculative)
Under Investigation: Yonaguni Monument
circa 8000 BCE
Americas Agrarian Society
Mexico: Guilá Naquitz (Agrarian)
Phenotype Variation: Lactose Tollerance
circa 7500 BCE
Middle East Agrarian Society
Egypt: Nabta Playa (Agrarian)
circa 7500 BCE
Europe/Mediterranean Agrarian Society
Greece: Sesklo Culture (Agrarian)
Ain Ghazal Statues: Early Plaster Art
circa 7000 BCE
12,000 to 9,000 BCE (representing the start of 12,000 years)
Zoroastrian Universe Creation Date
circa 7000 BCE
Asia Agrarian Society
China: Jiahu Settlement (Agrarian)
circa 7000 BCE
Oceana-Australasia Agrarian Society
New Guinea: Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Agrarian)
6900 to 6300 BCE
Origins over 9,000 Years Ago
Atlit Yam Neolithic Village
Oldest Known Flute in China
circa 5,260 BCE
7,260 Years Ago
Dispilio Tablet: European Proto-Writing
4900 BCE
Up to 7,900 Years Ago (Neolithic)
Vinor Circular Building: a roundel
4,004 BCE
Sunday, October 23, 4004 BCE
4004 BCE, The Bible’s Earth Creation Date
3761 BCE, Judaic Earth Creation Date
3400 BCE
3400 BCE to 100 CE (end of use for scholarly work)
Skara Brae Scottish Village
3114 BCE
August 11, 3114 BCE
3114 BCE: Mayan Earth Creation Date
3100 BCE
By 5,100 Years Ago
Oldest Known Dice: Skara Brae
3000 BCE
Estimates range from 9 to 16 million
World Population: 15 Million
3000 BCE
South America: 5,000 Years Ago
Fuente Magna Bowl: Forgery or Real?
Gilgamesh, circa 2700 BCE
2700 BCE
188 Generations Ago
Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BCE)
circa 2650 BCE (+/- 50 years)
The Yellow Emperor (Huangdi)
The Rise of the Maya Civilization
Indus Valley Script: Northwest India
The what, why, and how of life.
First Mail, First Postal System
2350 BCE
2500 BCE to 2250 BCE
Oldest Known Library: Ebla
1900 BCE
from circa 1900 BCE to 1700 BCE
Cretan Hieroglyphic script: Greek Island
1,700 BCE
148 Generations Ago
Rigveda Samhita, Veda Book 1 of 4
Dragons: Early Dinosaur Fossils
1400 BCE
circa 1700–1400 BCE
Minoan Frescoes at Knossos
Frescoes of the Tomb of Nebamun
1344 BCE
circa 1340 to 1320 BCE
Oldest Known Monotheistic Religion: Atenism
Oracle Bone Script: China
900 BCE
From before 900 BCE to 400 BCE.
Olmec Hieroglyphs: Mexico
The Nature of Being.
We are more than self-aware.
Nature is the master plan.
Early or "First" Science
The Grandfather of Western Philosophy
Thales of Miletus (624 – 546 BCE)
Built circa 700 BCE, destroyed 612 BCE.
b. circa 604 BCE
By tradition, 604-517 BCE
New Look: The Flood Stories
Go with the flow of nature.
Let life unfold organically.
Ziran, Authenticity, or Authentic Self
A good life is a balanced life.
We can only describe nature.
Normal is our current experiences.
New Look
Normalcy, Normal, and Abnormal
The abstractions of life.
Your idea of "self" does not exist.
Non-Self or Anatman and Self or Atman
The separation of mind and body is an illusion.
born circa 535 BCE
circa 535 to 475 BCE, likely aged about 60 years old
Change is the only constant.
Your sub-culture and choices.
Existence before essence.
Crafting yourself from your given traits.
Anaxagoras (circa 500-428 BCE)
Atomist
The Laughing Philosopher
Democritus (460 BCE – circa 370 BCE)
A constant state of self-assessment.
Plato and Aristotle’s Relationship
Logically connect things.
Prioritize your ideas over reality.
Prioritize reality over your ideas.
Reality is organized and mathematical.
Flourish now and into the future.
Question your beliefs and avoid dogmatism.
Shared, not natural agreements.
Epicurean Happiness Toolkit: A 4-Step Structure
Don't waste time on the unknowable.
Live in the present.
Prefer long term pleasures over short.
Stoicism
Father of Stoicism
Zeno of Citium (334-262 BCE)
322 BCE
Wake of Alexander the Great
The Foundation of the Maurya Empire
b. circa 20 BCE
circa 20 BCE to circa 55 CE
Stories have complex meanings.
Allegorical Interpretation
Stoic Tradition
Roman Stoic Statesman
Seneca the Younger (4 BCE – 65 CE)
Earliest Known Magnification
Marcus Aurelius: An Explorative Agnostic
Stoic Virtue Framework: A 4-Step Structure
Step outside your reality.
185 CE
Verified. Historically documented and empirically validated.
Block Theory of the Universe
New Look
Blank slate filled with impressions
You exist, then you mold your essence.
The Floating Man Thought Experiment
The Five Senses of Humans
Mike's Spacetime Game
New Look
Time Trail Game: Mindful Time Travel
Neoplatonist
French Philosopher
Bernard of Chartres (circa 1070 – 1130)
Good Intent vs Good Results
Abstraction brings understanding and illusion
New Look
The Problem of Universals
The First Great Charter of King Henry III
The Māori Settlement of New Zealand: Earliest Known
Upper and Lowercase Starts
born 1473
Lived 1473 to 1543, aged 70.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Microscope Invented = Microworld Discovered!
3 Types: Empirical, Rational, & Irrational
New Look
circa 1600 CE
Late 16th to Early 18th Century
1748 with Montesquieu
Evolved from 1640 through 1748
Separation of Church and State
King James I Orders New British Flag
King James Bible Published
Bartholomew Legate Burned at the Stake
The Idea of the Unknowable Dao
New Look
Processes that uncover truth.
New Look
1629
Modern science started in the 1600s.
Law protects.
Modern law emerges after the Middle Ages.
Life, Liberty, & Property Rights
Protection against authority.
Emerged in the 1600s.
1641 - Two Substances: Body & Soul
Cartesian Dualism
Descartes Thought Experiment
Book: A Key Into the Language of America
Book: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution
Patent for Providence Plantations, Roger Williams
Book: Christenings make not Christians
Founder, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
God is nature, nature is everything.
Western monism emerged with Spinoza in the 1600s.
Spirituality is exploration.
New Look
Material-Spiritual Framework
Open Viewpoint Method (OVM)
The Great Quaker Debates!
Protozoa Discovered: Microbiology Founded
1675-1678: The King Philip’s War
The Invention of Calculus
Citizens consent to be governed.
Emerged about 1689.
The force of public opinion.
The fourth emerged in the 18th & 19th centuries.
Storytelling for the people.
Modern journalism started in the early 1700s.
Our Ideas are Not Reality
The Eastern unknowable Dao emerged in the West in the late 1700s.
Live by universal values.
Emerged in late 1700s.
Life is definitions & observations.
New Look
Instincts and Impressions
New Look
Declaration of Independence
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The Constitution of the United States
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
British Naturalist and Explorer
Father of Biogeography
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
1824
The Birth of Paleontology
Fossils: From Myth to Science
Doppler Effect for Sound and Light
Use angst to guide your life.
1843: “Fear and Trembling” by Kierkegaard.
Doppler Effect Observed for Stars
Discovery: The Sumerian Flood Story
1858
Lived from 1858 to 1947, aged 89.
Cause no harm.
In "On Liberty," pub. 1859.
1862: Ivan Turgenev novel "Fathers and Sons"
New Look
Electromagnetic Radiation Theory
Born 1864.
Lived from 1864 to 1920, aged 56 years.
Born 1879.
Lived from 1879 to 1950, aged 70
Live Your Authentic Self
1883, 1885: From "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Live in the now.
1882/3/5: Refined in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
Authentic Recipe: Nietzsche’s Five-step Approach
The experience of living.
New Look
First Analog Radio Transmission
Native Americans Citizenship
Confront life head on.
1927: "Being and Time"
Heidegger’s Existentialism
Galaxies Discovered! Doppler Effect used to measure distance!!
Electron Microscope = Nanoworld Discovered!
Don't live in bad-faith, be authentic.
1943: "Being and Nothingness" by Sartre.
Existence precedes essence.
1943: "Being and Nothingness"
Rediscovery: City of Catalhoyuk, circa 7100 BCE
Hand Axes 1.7 Million Years Ago
All States “allow” Native Americans to Vote
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
Rediscovery of the Library of Ebla: circa 2350 BCE
Chapter 1 Quote Attribution Clarification
Ancient Spears 350,000 Years Ago
Discovery: Neanderthal Symbolic Thought
2026 (+/- 1 year)
In Progress
Space Station Closed-Loop Life Support
2028 (+/- 1 year)
In Progress
Lunar Gateway: Space Station Orbiting the Moon
2028 (+/- 2 years)
In Progress
The Dawn of Quantum Supremacy
2029 (+/- 2 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
Peak Oil Tipping Point: A New Era in Global Energy
Europa’s Vast Ocean Unveiled: Diving Deep into an Ocean World of Jupiter
2030 (+/- 2 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
The Rise of the Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI)
2032 (+/- 4 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
Digital AI Filesystem Emerge
2034: In 10 Years (+/- 2 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
Eradicating Diabetes: A Gene Editing Revolution
2039 (+/- 6 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
2040: 15 Years From Now (+/- 5 years)
Speculative. Informed by accelerated technological trends and empirical data.
2045 (+/- 5 years)
Rationally predicted based on current trends.
Tipping Point Transition From Animal Meats
2080: 60 Years From Now (+/- 10 years)
2090: 65 Years From Now (+/- 30 years)
Verified. Ratonally predicted. Timeline speculative.
1:1 Human-Android Ratio by 2090
World Population: 10.5 Billion (+/- 1 Billion)
2175: 150 Years From Now (+/- 50 Years)
Speculative. Informed by accelerated technological trends and empirical data.
Kardashev Type I: Planetary Civilization
Reference Date: 2200 CE (+/- 50 years)
The Dawn of Empirical Spirituality
2200: 175 Years From Now (+/- 50 years)
2325: 300 Years From Now
Highly speculative. Rationally deduced with supporting empirical data.
Alien Communication Expected Date
Non-Surface Human Population Tipping Point
3100: 1,100 Years From Now (+/- 200 years)
Speculative. Informed by accelerated technological trends and empirical data.
3825: 1,800 Years From Now (+/- 200 years)
Mars Terraforming: Greening the Red Planet
4025: 2,000 Years From Now (+/- 1,000 Years)
Speculative. Rationally deduced with supporting empirical data.
Kardashev Type II: Stellar Civilization
10,000 Years From Now (+/- 5,000 Years)
Speculative. Rationally predicted and supported by empirical data.
Kardashev Type III: Galactic Civilization
13,000 Years From Now
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
Within 100,000 Years From Now
Speculative. Ratonally predicted and supported by empirical data.
1 Million Years From Now
Verified. Empirically supported and rationally deduced.
250 Million Years From Now
Speculative. Ratonally predicted.
New Pangaea Proxima Supercontinent
4.5 Billion Years From Now
Verified. Ratonally predicted.
Milky Way-Andromeda Collision
5 Billion Years in the Future
Verified. Ratonally predicted.
7 Billion Years From Now
Verified. Ratonally predicted.
Formation of a New Solar System
50 Billion Years From Now
Speculative. Ratonally predicted.
Degradation of Earth’s Orbit
1 to 37 Quadrillion Years From Now
Highly speculative. Rationally deduced.
1+ Googol Years From Now
Highly speculative. Rationally deduced.
Lambda Model: Heat Death of the Universe