This book started as an analysis of the heroic fallacy but became several other kinds of story. Primarily, the portrait of a protracted breakdown in the author Michael Scotts psychological and physical makeup, although he struggles hard not to go under, making his account more useful for others to read. Its neither pathological, nor selfindulgently selfpitying. There are useful accounts of coping strategies, particularly appropriate to agerelated weakness and physical infirmity, especially when their onset is sudden as it was for Scott. The book focuses on puzzling features of human behaviour, and whether the species Homo sapiens is anything like the triumphant evolutionary achievement we pretend it to be. We are repeatedly warned about our anthropic megalomania, amply illustrated by unflinching description of the authors own egotism. Two other primary considerations in the book are consciousness and love. Scott questions the airy assumptions made about consciousness, arguing that it is fundamentally unknown and unanalysable. He claims that consciousness is part of life itself, and possibly nonliving systems too. He evidences Daniel Dennett writing that the human brain creates a "narrative of consciousness", Scott believes the universe itself is the set of brainnarratives we choose to regard as reality. As for love, Scott is a passionate advocate of it as the only saving grace in our collective and individual behaviour the supreme brainnarrative, but believes that we are...

Binding: Paperback;246 pages; Publisher: Fisher King Publishing; Classification: N/A; Weight: 419.37 g; Dimensions: N/A

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