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Terrifyingly eye-opening. Everyone should read this. Genius.
Reading any book written by Yuval Noah Harari is such a feast for the brain, and I am here for it.
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Absolute waste of time! His work was not researched appropriately, arguments are sophomoric and his potential future outlook is tired and boring. We all must be becoming less imaginative and naive if this book made it to print.
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The implications of the current pace of technology is presented in an interesting way. I kept thinking what would my reaction to such a sort of life would be. There are instances where you begin to question reality, free will and the mere essence of what means to be a human. If we are the dominant species, was it by our choice or it was coded within is, what if we go extinct, are we wholly responsible or does that just mean that our time is up. This book opens up your mind to a lot of questions and for the better.
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Yuval is a genius. His books Sapiens and Homo deus has changed my whole perspective towards everything imaginable (with out algorithmic human mind as he says). Now Homo Deus starts with how and why we are the way we are, why do we behave like this and not the other way around. How our thinking that there's a reason behind everything we do and our life is meaningful, our actions give meaning to this universe is totally flawed and without any base. In fact these ideas are the very product of the processes going inside our mind. And our mind is nothing more than a algorithm (as far we know it) that have evolved over millions of year, coping with adversities and survival. And this mind, different type of feelings are just chemical reactions. And there's not some soul or any single entity controlling it. It actually is being controlled by other very vast and random factors like our environment, our genomes, DNA, other people and life around us. And thus our basic fundamental of liberalism that human life is meaningful and we ought to listen to our heart, listen to our inner voice is utter bullshit because there's no one entity that's monitoring every activity. It's all just a random chaos, changing every nano second so fast that we can't fathom any of it. And we need (using actually) other super computational algorithms with the ability to make meaning of all of it. And that is already being done. Be it medical, education, environment, astronomy, biology, biochemistry.. Social science and so forth.
I don't know what to write more.. It's so humongous and elaborate.. I don't even remember much of it. Think I'll have to re-read it. There's so much information in it so I think it's expected or maybe I've low-memory. Whatever. Justvdo read this book. You won't regret it.
I don't know what to write more.. It's so humongous and elaborate.. I don't even remember much of it. Think I'll have to re-read it. There's so much information in it so I think it's expected or maybe I've low-memory. Whatever. Justvdo read this book. You won't regret it.
Not as iconic as Harari's previous book, Sapiens, but still quite enjoyable and inspiring, especially as someone interested in writing futuristic science fiction.
Not all the future scenarios he theorizes are necessarily fun to think about, though. Some sound pretty dystopian. The ideas in here aren't always pleasant to think about, but they are all interesting.
I still don't agree with how he defines "religion," as he basically redefines the word for his own purposes in a way that no one else does (as far as I'm aware). But in this book I came to understand a little bit more why he defines it that way. I see where he's coming from, but I'm still not on board.
Not all the future scenarios he theorizes are necessarily fun to think about, though. Some sound pretty dystopian. The ideas in here aren't always pleasant to think about, but they are all interesting.
I still don't agree with how he defines "religion," as he basically redefines the word for his own purposes in a way that no one else does (as far as I'm aware). But in this book I came to understand a little bit more why he defines it that way. I see where he's coming from, but I'm still not on board.
Using his historical perspective on human nature and the way we operate in our own self interest, Yuval paints a potential future based on cutting edge research and technology in computer science and biotech, and examines the trajectory of the humanist revolution and where we go once its premises are rendered obsolete. Great, great, great book.