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

A worldview is a collection of mental models that form a structure or framework with which the brain classifies and interprets incoming and existing input. It forms the basis for what and how we think and what we choose to believe or dismiss. Brains process incoming information into extremely simplified and often wildly inaccurate representations of itself and the outside world. This simplification is done for efficiency and of necessity by a series of filters or mental models that relentlessly strip away complexities and leave grossly simplified caricatures. These simplified representations are then reassembled into an individual's worldview -a kind-of master filter and the essence of so-called self or personality. Together, an individual's mental models and worldview strongly control their thoughts and creativity. "Nothing remotely profound, innovative or even useful ever came from a politically correct mind." -Ich Bin Niemand As suggested by physicist, Richard Feynman, to have new ideas it is necessary to get new mental models and to think differently and the danger of reflexively framing thought from within the socially safe and comfortable womb of religious, politically correct or otherwise uniform dogma, should be obvious. Humans are herd animals. They live and exist in families, tribes and nations. They constantly seek consensus and approval. An individual human, without the support of others, cannot easily survive. Humans find strength in numbers and defying the orthodoxy has always been difficult and dangerous. As suggested by physicist, Richard Feynman, to have new ideas it is necessary to get new mental models and to think differently. Perhaps suggesting that looking at something from a fresh perspective may produce new ideas seems painfully obvious. But the converse, the danger of reflexively framing thought from within the socially safe and comfortable womb of religious, politically correct or otherwise uniform dogma, is maybe not so obvious. Humans are herd animals. They live and exist in families, tribes and nations. They constantly seek consensus and approval. An individual human, without the support of others, cannot easily survive. Humans find strength in numbers and defying the orthodoxy has always been difficult and dangerous.