I earned bachelor degrees in Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Washington, and then followed this, at U.C. Berkeley, with graduate study in Cognitive Psychology, a master degree in Statistics, and a doctorate in Computer Science, specializing in computer architecture. (Search online for "philip bitar dissertation".)
During my adolescent awakening, I had become passionate about solving the fundamental theoretical problems of human life. As a result, I devoted 10 years, 1998 to 2008, to fulfilling my adolescent dream: I developed a comprehensive theory to solve the fundamental theoretical problems of human life.
The original version of the comprehensive theory is presented in the book "Why? In Pursuit of the Ultimate Answer: Abridged" (2008), whose purpose is to explain the meaning of human life. In order to achieve this goal, I address the fundamental theoretical problems of human life under the following seven topics: knowledge, reality, religion, ethics, commerce, government, and meaning — the meaning of human life.
Since then, I have greatly refined and substantially augmented the main topics in two additional books: "Why Human Life Makes Sense", Edition 5 (2023) and "The Second American Revolution", Edition 2 (2022).
In the book "Human Life", I present the comprehensive theory under the following topics: knowledge, indeterminism, mind, freewill, ethics, sexuality and marriage, structure of civilization, government, meaning in life, afterlife, God, religion, church, prosperity in civilization, the unifying concept of the theory, and 16 challenges for scholars worldwide.
In the book "Revolution", I present major new insights into how a democratic government should be structured and into antebellum history pertaining to slavery and the Civil War.
As far as I know, this theory is the first comprehensive theory of human life ever developed in the history of civilization.