![]() “Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.” Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.” “Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. algorithms honed though millions of years of evolution.” “Rather, feelings are biochemical mechanisms. “Your core identity is a complex illusion created by neural networks.” We make decisions through feelings but these feelings do not amount to any kind of free will. ![]() “It is our own human fingers that wrote the Bible, the Quran and the Vedas, and it is our minds that give these stories power.” He asserts that “humans think in stories” and that among these stories are not only our political systems but all the great religions. They need to be thought of in “cosmic terms” and may lead to the disappearance of Homo Sapiens altogether. ![]() He says again that “the twin revolutions in information technology and biotechnology confront us with the biggest challenges our species has ever encountered”. In his broad approach, there is little here that won’t be familiar to those who have read Sapiens and Homo Deus. In Harari’s writing, the stakes are always high. In his final chapter he admits he’s indulging in personal remarks, “talking as one Sapiens to another, just before the curtain goes down on our species, and a completely different drama begins”. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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