A clinical argument for an examined life
Human Authorship explores the tension between the life we inherit and the life we help create. Drawing on medicine, personal reflection and the experience of building, Dr. Kamy asks how we can notice our patterns, recover a sense of agency and make room for meaning.
“Lifespan without authorship is just a longer sentence.”
For readers asking what comes next: in their work, relationships, health or inner life. The book treats authorship as an ongoing practice of attention and choice, with respect for the circumstances and limits we cannot simply wish away.
Six parts. 32 chapters.
Prologue: The Moment the Map Broke
Chapter One: The Coop
Chapter Two: The Identity Factory
Chapter Three: The Chemistry We Run On
Chapter Four: What Medicine Never Tells You
Chapter Five: The Postponement
Chapter Six: The Spine
Chapter Seven: The Rewritable Human
Chapter Eight: Three Layers
Chapter Nine: The Invisible Code
Chapter Ten: The Four Dimensions
Chapter Eleven: The Infrastructure
Chapter Twelve: Aging Differently
Chapter Thirteen: Meaning Returns
Chapter Sixteen: The Body That Listens
Chapter Fifteen — The Deeper Signal
Chapter Sixteen — The Body That Listens
Chapter Seventeen: What Loneliness Does
Chapter Eighteen: Tribe Worth Belonging To
Chapter Nineteen: What Grief Does
Chapter Twenty: After Production
Chapter 21: The Miscast Life
Chapter 22: The Man Who Lost the Script
Chapter 23: The Silent Epidemic
Interlude: An Ordinary Tuesday
Chapter 24: The Processor in Practice
Chapter 25: The Fear Examined
Chapter 26: The Crossing
Chapter 27: The Physician and the Mirror
Chapter 28: The Mirror, Not the Author
Chapter 29: What Remains Uniquely Human
Chapter Thirty: Sovereignty
Chapter 31: Protocols for the Future Human
Chapter 32: A Day in 2046
Letter to the Future Human
The Human Authorship Manifesto
About the Author
I’m Kambiz “Kamy” Farbakhsh, a physician, entrepreneur, inventor and author. My work in medicine and business has made me curious about how we live, what shapes our choices and where we find connection. I helped found GeeVida Health and am one of the inventors named on U.S. Patent 11,697,301. I wrote Dance with Aging in 2024 and continue the conversation in The Architecture of Becoming on Substack. Human Authorship brings many of these questions together.