CATEGORIES OF HUMAN INTEREST?
INTERESTS OF HUMANS -- UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Basic, Universal Interest-Areas of Humans -- includes Drives, Goals and Needs
These interest-areas are designed to be self-exclusive, but some sub-interests might be properly placed in one or more Interest areas
- achievment -- includes success, competition
- agriculture
- beauty -- an awareness of form, symetry, aesthetics, balance, ...
- clothing
- competition
- dance
- environment -- includes weather, animals, plants, physical comfort, air, water
- emotions of various kinds -- anger, love, hatred, fear, jealousy, embarassment, shame
- exercise (could possibly be included under healthcare??)
- family -- includes extended families of any form
- food -- includes drink
- fun -- pleasure, entertainment, sports, play, music, reading, hobbies, crafts, relaxing, excitement, ...
- government -- laws, rules, controls, taxes
- healthcare -- medicines, all sorts of doctors and practioners, includes emotional well being and attention to natural and involuntary bodily functions
- hobbies --
- human relationships -- parenting, love, caring, nourishing, charity, loyalty, ego, status
- humor --
- hunting, fishing and trapping animals
- language --
- learning -- the search for and aquisition of knowledge
- mobility -- various ways to move around, travel
- money -- includes investing
- music
- play -- Includes anything done for the fun of it.
- religion -- includes praying
- safety -- from various dangers, including poverty and accidents
- sexuality -- includes sexual love
- shelter -- includes real estate
- space and position -- in, on, at, behind, before, beside, over, under, near, ...
- sports
- stories
- toys --
- time -- including time realtionships -- before, after, when, during, ...
- tools -- anything used to change or modify existing things, includes abstract things such as information or flattery
- war
- work -- any form of endeavor that is an attempt to provide a benefit to self or others, includes business and trading
I am trying to build a simple but complete hierarchical system or systems of every purposeful thing humans do, think about or feel.
Does "do, think or feel" cover everything?
Common language summary -- eat, sleep, drink, think, plan, play, build, observe, analyze, solve problems, read, teach, write, calculate, relate to others, work, build, fix or make things, grow things, exercise, parenting. have fun, involved in spiritual matters
What do we do?
What do we think about?
What acts on us?
The following are brainstorming ideas -- they may or may not have relevance
- Activities --- learning, observing , attending school, reading,
- Art
- Construction -- including repairs
- Education -- school, training
- Science and Technology
- Transportation
- Jobs
- food -- nutrition, cooking, eating
- health-- fitness, exercise, diet, treatment
- behavior -- law, etiquette. mores,
- Gardening
- Home maintenance
- fun -- play -- exercise, sports and games
- entertainment -- watching, listening,
- shopping and buying
- Parenting
- relationships --family -- marriage -- love
- pets
- real estate
- sexuality
- government -- taxes, laws
- mind altering food and drink
- money -- investing and saving
- tools
- rest and relaxation
travel, vacations, wedding, parties,
man-made things
emotions
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"Science in its rightful place alongside music, art and literature as an indispensable part of what makes life worth living.
Brian Greene, a professor of physics at Columbia, is the author of “The Elegant Universe” and “The Fabric of the Cosmos.”
6/1/08 article in the NY Times
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