Human Development and Spiral Dynamics

We are evolved beings. In fact, we’re more or less the same species we were 100,000 years ago. Yet, as individuals, we continue to develop until we die—as individuals and as cultural groups. Theories of adult development such as those proposed by Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Clare Graves are making a comeback. In this episode of Social Evolution, Michael and Max talk about the delicate interplay of nature and nurture. Then they discuss Spiral Dynamics, a popular “theory of everything,” which weaves together a number of threads in “bio-psycho-social” development. 

Biological Evolution
Darwinism
Fitness landscape
Limits to cognition
Long tail of excellence 
Evolved Cuteness: Dan Dennett
Neuroplasticity
Outliers
Egalitarianism
10,000 hours
Adult Developmental Psychology
Nabokov’s Lolita
Language Acquisition and Age
Spiral Dynamics
Claire Graves
Beck and Cowen
Dunbar’s Number
Animism
Magical Thinking
“They worshipped strength, because it is strength that makes all other values possible.”
Daimyo
Hobbes’s Leviathan
James C. Scott: The state as protection racket
Against the Grain
Duty
Hierarchy
Great Chain of Being
Magna Carta
Galileo
Baconian Methodology
From Mercantilism to Markets
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Counter Enlightenment & Romanticism
“Everybody get together try to love one another right now”
Hippies
The Sixties
Consensus
Cultural relativism
Postmodernism
Critical theory
Ken Wilber
Jürgen Habermas
Charles Dickens
Das Kapital - Karl Marx
Trust Busting & Progressive Era
Childhood labor laws
Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
Frankfurt School - Max Horkheimer, Max Weber
Speak truth to power
Culture war
Noble Savage
Traditionalism
Islamism
Sharia
Catholic Integrism
Ted Kaczynski
Tree Structure
Evolution before Darwin
Tree of Life
Stephen Jay Gould
Lawrence Kohlberg 
Robert Kegan
Cognitive complexity
Either/or fallacy and All-or-nothing thinking
Cognitive bias
Complex Systems
Multifactorial causation of behavior
Bayesian epistemology
Black swan theory and Nassim Taleb
Unknown Unknowns
Integral Theory
Emergence
Epistemic humility
Second Tier Thinking
Holonic
Apotheosize
Cultural Evolution & Sociocultural Evolution
Comparative religion
Animal domestication & selective breeding & coevolution
Bird and crocodile & cleaning symbiosis 
Self-domestication
Transhumanism, genetic engineering, & CRISPR
James Mark Baldwin
Baldwin effect
Cognitive Stratification
The Flynn Effect
Daniel Kish, “bat boy” & human echolocation
Biofeedback
Accelerated learning
Elysium
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Metamodernism
Gautama Buddha
Thomas Aquinas
Gottfried Leibniz
Emily Dickenson
Enneagram of Personality