WorldView: An Outlier’s Essays and Opinions on Thought, Consciousness and Intelligence.

WorldView An Outlier’s Essays and Opinions on Thought, Consciousness and Intelligence This is a book of ideas-sometimes unusual ideas-about how humans view themselves, their world and the Universe. A worldview is a collection of mental models that form a structure or framework that the brain uses to classify and interpret incoming and existing input. It forms the basis for what is though or dismissed. It is the foundation of individuality and self. It is who we are and the map to what we will become. In these wonderful, provocative, sometimes satirical but always brilliant essays, R. C. Hörsch argues that the prevailing worldview-that humans are special on Earth and in the Universe-is comically prejudiced and hopelessly wrong. He suggests that we might exist not because of, but in spite of, our complex brains.