The Search for Utopia

About the Book

Natural scientists have failed to explain human belief and behavior because they put too much emphasis on physical and biological forces. Social scientists, in turn, have also failed to explain our beliefs and behaviors because they put too much emphasis on social forces and conscious freewill. The Search for Utopia succeeds in explaining our beliefs and behavior because it emphasizes how physical, biological, and social forces all impact our freewill.

Historical explanations of our beliefs are plentiful because they require only research. However, The Search for Utopia is the only book to explain why different people prefer different beliefs because that requires explaining freewill. Although understanding freewill will not be easy, freewill must be understood to understand why different people choose different beliefs and behaviors.

Unlike most philosophy and psychology books, The Search for Utopia isn´t another collection of anecdotes written to the ninth grade level. The Search for Utopia is complex and challenging because there is no simple explanation for why different people select different beliefs and behaviors.

About the Author

Douglas Hufschmid grew up in Santa Barbara, California. For the last twenty years he has worked on The Search for Utopia, which explains why the natural sciences have progressed further than the social sciences, or why we understand inanimate objects better than we understand our own beliefs and behaviors.