I agree with this. With a good story, you can convince any human anything. So I believe the 1% have had a forked tongue for some time. If you can convince Cooperation you can move the flock in a direction. And here we are. . .
For me, the biggest contribution from the book Sapiens by Yuval is that human's success as a specie is our unique ability for mass cooperations through stories we tell ourselves and each other, and it is both a gift and a curse. It allows us to do great things such as build cities and cultures, trades with each other, make progress in science and technology, create great work of arts and entertainments -- but also lead to conflicts that causes wars, animal cruelties, racisms, sexism, financial inequality, ecological disasters... and that all of it can be changed with the right story. It strangely gives me hope because of that perspective, and the knowledge that the most powerful and efficient tool for changes is for the stories to change. Also, I no longer judge as harshly with ideas I don't connect with personally, such as religions or political ideals. We all have to believe in some form of fictions for our world to function, including things I have taken for granted such as money, moralities, and human rights. It is what make us human. I am more open minded about ideas -- or at least know that mine is not as valid as another or their more invalid than mine. There's obvious exceptions when stories cause real suffering and harms, but the rest, they don't matter so much -- in the end we're all just talking chimps with tools, and stories.
Well summarised and your attitude of tolerance is so necessary for us to live together in harmony. But alas, it is exactly the stories that have been told and continue to be told and the new stories that will be told that make me not hold much hope in humankind moving forward.
I am very much in agreement with your brilliant synopsis. It reminds me of where I see myself heading philosophically in my old age. I'm becoming a child of the socratic paradox. That philosophy of "The one thing I know is I know nothing" is something I try to remind myself of every day. The possibility of anything that I believe may be flawed helps me to keep an open mind and become less judgmental of others . What I find so strange and sometimes infuriating about our species is for every one person who steps up to lead millions of us are willing to follow. Why? I ask myself why. Why do we so desperately want to believe in the stories? Why do we WANT to be led? Also I wonder do people actually believe the stories or do they just WANT to believe the stories. In other words can you actually convince yourself that something is true just because you want it to be? At the end of the day I realize how futile me pondering this is and the only thing that I should probably find important is how to find inner peace. I will depart with this thought, I ponder if there is a way to be a good person that is universal and timeless. I've come up with these three fundamental beliefs, Each one of us must strive to become our own leader, To accept that we have no right that our beliefs have no right over others. In my opinion one of the most destructive beliefs/ dillusions humans share is that we have the right to dictate how other people should live their lives. So number 2 would be to remind ourselves the words SHOULD and SHOULDN'T when referring to other people are Best kept to a minimum. Lastly, to accept that all we believe we know is not above being flawed and that's OK. That acknowledgment is what will keep us moving forward. Would love feedback especially if it's contradictory. Regards Santiago
Humans are herd animals who do nothing without a leader, unfortunately all the leaders are supplied by the elite group who want to trick the masses into willingly participating in their own self-destruction.
I absolutely enjoyed this lesson you compiled this concept so well and easy to digest. Sadly the people who should have listened to this aren't going to listen.
"Respect others and their property and the world is better for it. Domination is a weakness resulting in not only suffering but extinction. Question this need to dominate, then explore that with emotional and intellectual honesty." - The Uneducated but wise
@@AzzekaTheRealOne correct. no one likes a bully. This is why during the civil rights movement the country cried out against the treatment of the protesters. Fire hoses and police dog maulings are unacceptable in a comfortable, civilized society. We don't do public hangings anymore etc etc. BUT domination can be done socially, without oppression. I would like to continue to dominate the narrative with truth about social issues like apathy in a post scarcity society, the demography issue of less than 2 million people left on earth in 400 years or less, the ocean's carbon cycle and phanerozoic c02 being left out of the conversation while we went so many years without an EPA head.... The clean air act was the last thing our government did anything of worth until our last guy pulled us out of syria.
He certainly has not underestimated human stupidity! His ideas about "stories" directly fly into the face of all human knowledge and science. His should have stuck to his own story-telling while "teaching" history.
a side note: Please be aware of the background music. It has a subliminal effect on listener of this lecture. It is there to make the information seem more profound. Music is one of the techniques used to influence the human imagination and emotions.
Lol. Kinda. Even when believable. He is going to show us how. You too, can write a book. But I am plenty liable myself. Pain can arrouse pride or humbleness. That's true with the pain of criticism, as well. While we all may need correction and change of previously coveted direction, we still need love each other as ourselves lest we be caught in likewise snare. Many slaves to an idea or foolishness can be pulled under the waves manacled to the same chains. But many can be pulled up by wings of truth, love and grace. Fear not those who can kill the body, but that which can cast into hell. Mercy rejoices against judgment, and justice, judgment and salvation kiss in God.
This is the best book I have ever read just like the audio. I am still reading it and with audio I hope I will understand it better. Thank you very much. You touched on almost all complexities we face in our daily lives and prophesized about the future.
The success of humanity lies within its ability to cooperate and believe in one story but if such story fails, could also lead to its demise. Humanity's strength is also its weakness.
Or you have different groups that believe in different stories (because its unreasonable and unjust to expect all human life to follow "one story") and as these groups learn more, they are able to be open minded and realize where their story ends and someone else's continues. Or a new story begins. Science is a new story beginning, but many refuted science and stuck with their metaphysical knowledge from their religious texts. Those people got left behind because they confused starting a new story, with dismissing their old stories. The old stories can have value but the new stories need to be at the forefront because there is good reason for them being new. It's not about following one story, it's about constantly following many stories and being always willing to find value in an untold story, as long as it has some provable bearing. Speaking entirely in vague metaphor opens this up to be easily argued against but hopefully you all understand my point. Civilization has never and will never believe in one story.
Precisely! The story that science is now trying to tell the American people and the world at large is that climate change will have very serious consequences and we must recognize our limitations. This is difficult to get across to Americans in particular. I taught earth sci and bio at the HS and com college level in the US, ocassionally engaging students in debate. I came to the conclusion that they believed as did their parents that anything is possible. For example, many of my students believed that teleportation is a real possibility, yet these same young people also believed that Noah's Ark is real. It's a crazy place
One story= tyranny This clown is nothing more than a globalist justifying his nonsense. He knows if his message was told to the masses. He would be hanging from a tree. Anyone suggesting digital dictatorship will Become more efficient than individual liberty….has an agenda.
A few points: 1. Religious stories are not about the material world, they are about the spiritual world. Don't expect religion to give an answer as to how to make a new computer. But yes look to religion to find an answer as to how to save your soul. 2. Homo sapiens is an aberration among all other life forms on earth. Humans encode knowledge as to how to survive not just in the DNA like every other form of life, but to a major degree in the learned knowledge passed from person to person and generation to generation. This is what distinguishes man from other life forms. 3. Technology is not the solution, technology is the problem, created by the mind of man which itself is an aberration. 4. Humanity among other forms of life on Earth bears an uncanny resemblance to a tissue malignancy on an individual's body. 5. Humans have triggered the 5th mass extinction event which may very well extinguish humanity as it progresses to its ultimate end. This is another way in which humanity resembles a malignant tumor on a body which dies when the malignancy achieves its ultimate end. 6. Marxism and communism were stories that sprang from the mind of man, and led to the death of a hundred million people. 7. Death occurs because of the second law of thermodynamics. No science can overcome the laws of nature. 8. The stories that people believe do organize human life, but no story, no matter how scientifically sound or technologically developed can save man from his own foolishness. 9. The stories about God in the Bible are not pure invention springing from the creative mind of man, but rather a reflection of the creative force of order in the universe whom some people refer to as God. As such, no story that presumes man can perform such creative acts and control every aspect of the natural world can ultimately be held to be true. Can a man put an electron spinning around every nucleus in every atom? Can man's technology create millions of galaxies spinning in the universe? Religious stories simply reflect the order found in our world. New human stories like that of Karl Marx just create a huge mess. So don't get your hopes up that we humans can create stories that will surpass the truths found in the the Bible. In my humble opinion.
@@brunoe1891 my commie daughter turned me on to it. I’m enjoying it. Did not enjoy their unwarranted criticism of Noah, but… I took Noah’s book to be broad speculation and enjoyed it too.
Excellent. Good video and presentation. Oddly, in recent years (I'm 75 yrs), I've felt disconnected somehow from the nearer and greater society. I identified so much with the "good story" idea you presented. Through it, I recognized that the story going on in my mind was unique only to me. What to do? I don't know. But glad I clicked into this video. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" was certainly not about what I had imagined and was expecting. It was a good story -- but without an ending. I guess that's the way history is, huh?
The realization of how life works can be devastating for our mental health. I have no idea what to do either, it is very interesting though. It's funny that we (or want to) stay optimistic anyway !
Our minds delve in the non-physical world. As our physical abilities dwindle, we have to seek shelter within our minds. So "stories" becomes more important to us. It protects us and keeps us sane.
@@kpewliu4348 I had a "near death experience" once (the luminous tunnel, the feeling of bliss and "homecoming", greeted by departed loved ones etc., the whole "nine yards") and ever since, no amount of "logic" or "science" can disuade me from a fundamental "gut-feeling" and an unshakable "certainty" that THIS ain't all there is and there's more to come! I "understand" that it could be a hallucination but I "KNOW" it's not!
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it. -Daniel Khaneman
I read the book in more than a month and watched this video for an hour and I realized there's a lot of things I didn't really get from the book but from this video :) anyway, great work and salute to mr. Harrari
He does get more recognition from people who think he's one of Klaus Schwabs rent boys because he talked at the WEF. These idiot conspiracy theorists don't realise that Jane Goodall also spoke there, hahahahaha....we're gunna have to keep an eye on them chimps now! The secret Apeminati!!!
I enjoyed that immensely. Reminds me of something I ask myself everyday. Why for every one of us who steps up to lead do millions and millions of us want to follow? Why do we want to be led? Is it just our herd mentality?
I really like how he always refers the fact that we must keep living on some fiction in order to feel secured. It's a common theme we humans had ever since we began imagining and fabricating stories, and identified with them so much that we fear they'll cease and will fight to protect them, even if it means going to war (ironically the only reason we even have these stories is because you have a crowd that believes, but has no biological reality). He gave the example of the Industrial Revolution - the change was too drastic and different than how they're used to living and thus they just had to hold onto some 'childhood' stories and aggrandize them for feeling more secure. Same with the declaration of human rights which lead to the civil war. Same with territories and country alliances which lead to WWI. This is why I believe there would be an enormous amount of resistance towards the emergence of non-organic life, biological and cyborg engineering because at some point it may actually change what we already define as human, and as humans this is scary. "... and it's the same basic reaction: When you threaten the stability of the world, many people, especially people who are about to lose from the new situation try to hold onto something stable and secure; and their first instinct is to go back, back to some story which seems eternal, immutable, and immune to all these dangers and changes." Also mentions you cannot find answers for new specific problems in old stories because back then these specifics did not exist, and that instead we'll probably see the emergence of completely new stories and ideologies/religions.
“For though they knew Adonai, they did not glorify him as Adonai or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools” Romans 1:21-22 CSB
Fight or flight? That was the original plight. Food, wherefrom to come, Or was I to become? The thought was bothersome. Confusion, confusion, All appeared to be in collusion. Naked and cold, Barely on life I had a hold. Life was not wrapped in gold. But, today, it gotta be told, I did win a medal of gold. How and whence it came? The story is not one of shame. Rejoice, you've earned your fame. Africa was my home. The Earth is now my own. Yet, confusion knows no end. It'll follow me to the last bend. Confusion, thou art my salvation. So said YNH. Thank you, my late-life favourite author.
"Respect others and their property and the world is better for it. Domination is a weakness resulting in not only suffering but extinction. Question this need to dominate, then explore that with emotional and intellectual honesty." - The Uneducated but wise.
Respect, and thank you so much! This is honestly one of the wisest speech I ever heard, the awareness of the author is really impressive. Thanks again, I'm looking for the book by prof. Harari
i bought Sapiens a little while ago...it joined other books on the shelf...to be read one day FOR SURE! :-) After this video i i will actually read it, now...before my copy of The Patterning Instinct (Jeremy Lent) arrives.
Dont waste your time. Human history is full of superb insights, tremendous deductive and inductive reasoning and astonishing and ingenious hypotheses that were presented and proven and many more that were prescient and only later found to be true and changes quickly adopted to reflect them.. The list is massive. I can think of many right off the top of my head. If you dont know history you would be well to begin with Aristotle and go right up through Issac Newton seeing what effects these minds caused. And the ingenious insights that raised civilizations and directed refined thought increase 1000 fold thereafter. Attempts such as are blatant in this insouciant video to dumb down or cast as stupid humankind's feats of true insight and reason come straight out of the Marxist playbook. This author's "story" is mediocre and his data is cherry-picked, nade to manipulate his contorted bounds and leaps in ignorant reductionism aimed at human history and advancement.. You will find these kinds of authors and the infantile books like Sapiens appealing to those who know next to nothing about actual history. Go to your library and pull off most any book especially historical-reference section, any book that overviews human advances arising from philosophy, politics, economics, mathematics, geometry or the physical sciences.
Lots of aha moments and insights that I need to think about. I agree with first principles thinking and everything about this video makes me think. The one thing I feel that Yuval is missing in his books and his video is the discussion of greed. Many of the wars were fought not because of stories but because of greed. Greed is responsible for many of our problems so i feel it's an elephant in the room in Yuval's writings.
This is really thought-provoking, with several “aha” or “hmm” moments. Humans are fundamentally a paradox. The ancients had worded it as “both beast and angel”. You can see it as “the glass half full or half empty”. To me humans remind me of the physicist’s particle-wave duality of “fundamental reality”, in the sense that *our* human reality is as much objective or material as it is symbolic or imaginary. 21st century physics has totally deconstructed (and destroyed) the concept of “objective reality” and “matter”. Even a block of hard granite is more than 99.99% empty space, with the rest being energy fields (or something like that!). In addition, as Yuval points out, it is our “stories”, our beliefs or our theories, that have shaped the objective reality of our planet, making it now to a large degree “the product of thought”. It sounds totally crazy or even worse, presumptious. But it seems to be that way. And if it really is, then it’s in good company: physicists now consider that the ultimate stuff that “physical reality” is made of is… “information”. Of course, like energy, nobody knows what it is. But like energy it is fundamental. Some will hear an echo of this in “In the beginning was the word”. As Yuval says, who knows what the 21st century holds in store for us! But if we want it to end like a good story, then we can remember Stephen Hawking’s “other formula”: Our chances of survival = (wisdom / knowledge) = wisdom divided by knowledge, so that if knowledge increases but ONLY knowledge…
Progress makes people Happpy? YES. Progress makes people happy because it's a process in which people successively work in solving the problems of the community and when they finally solve them another ones are faced. This process gives happiness in three ways: 1-Working to solve community problems it's a good way (not the only one of course) to give people a worthy goal to work for. Having a worthy goal to work for makes people life more meaningful and that makes them happier. This point only benefits atheists because believers already have a meaningful life and they are happy with it. 2-When the people who were working solving the community problem finally solve it, they experiment satisfactorial feelings that make them happy. This point benefits both atheists and believers. 3-When the community problem is solved, the life conditions of the community improve and that makes all its members to be happier. This point benefits both atheists and believers. Apart from providing happiness, working for a worthy goal keeps the mind busy, this way, one doesn't have time to think that we ignore the meaning of all that exists (worthy goals and human life included). Maybe this doesn't grant happiness but at least helps keeping depression at bay. Once again, this point only benefits atheists because believers already know the meaning of existence itself and that makes them happy. It's important to realize atheists need more than beleievers the existance of PROGRESS to be happy but when PROGRESS is achieved both believers and atheists reach the same level of happiness. Maybe that's why in the periods of History which ahteists have been more numerous, the PROGRESS of Humanity has been greater and in the periods wich believers have been majority PROGRESS has been slower. What makes PROGRESS even greater it's the fact that never stops. It's an INFINITE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS.
Tried ´´Ecce homo´´, ´´The sublime object of ideology´´ or ´´Ecrits´´, ´´Anthropologie structurale deux´´? This kind of books. For me personally, it was nothing special and wasted day but at least I could debate it with a good friend who felt like you about Harari´s book.
Human mind has its ego which is making them feel that he can challenge the nature. But the physical creation is so miniscule compare to the open space/cosmos.
This expressed perfectly "we are learning to manufacture, bodies and brains and minds of our self and other organisms". Scary stuff when you really think about it. Non organic life is not my idea of something that will lend a good quality of life for those currently existing. "The emergence of useless people." doesn't sound like a rainbow!
Depopulate ........ This guy is stupid ......tricked by SATAN ....... Technology is boring .....imagine yourself surrounded by digital , electronic equipments only ...... Robot animals .....robot colleagues .....robot flowers .....hahahahha
We don't need to overthink what's important is how to live life with purpose, to enjoy, to fulfill it . I believe that humans are creations of Omniscient God who's given power and authority and dominion over all other creations on earth. I like Yuval's intelligence however I like to live light esp during pandemic time. Love and peace to All 🙏
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Being more Caring and Compassionate with others (cooperate) than the rest of the animals it's the engine which has made us "run the world" (before humans the world was already running). Our Imagined Realities (political systems, religions, etc.) have been the awesome tool to channel these emotions and progress. The same way we can be more caring and compassionate, we also can be more selfish and hateful. It's the other side of the same coin, it's the price of being more emotional than an oyster. The same way we can "run the world" we can also "ruin it". What will we choose?
I have not read the book, and this video obviously cannot comprehensively cover all that may be in the book. But the video does not discuss the importance of language development in sapiens (although that is perhaps implicit in the "stories" he so emphasizes?); it also seems to mostly attribute human motivation and cooperation to "stories", when plain old greed and necessity, especially in early humans (we need food, let's take that other tribe's food) and even later (let's conquer and plunder (Romans, Genghis Khan)) was and is also a large part of what motivates human cooperation.
The fact that people find this reformulation of biological reductionism "deeply insightful" tells a lot about the inherently contradictory epistemological nihilism of our times.
Hey, man, I'm president of the local Contradictory Epistemological Nihilists (South Eastern Montana) and I'm not really sure if I hate or am proud of your comment. But. it will certainly be the center-point conversation of our February meeting!
@@theunisholthuis4212 I will send you an overview of the meeting and would look forward to your insight and input concerning our club. We're currently debating whether to make our motto: "Fuck Off!" or "Have a Nice Day!" Needless to say there is a bit of drinking and covert drug use during our meetings; fist fights are rare, but agreeable resolutions to the direction our club takes in the future is also an ongoing dynamic situation. Sadly, the one thing we do agree on is that we are all part of the Global Useless Class, and don't really care who knows this fact. Should I send you a club application?
@@larsjames777 Sounds like I'll fit right in. If a vote is cast, I'd like to have it known that - although my subjective choice of attitude might be nothing more than a meaningless effort at self-affirmation - I would vote for 'Have a Nice Day?", to emphasize the epistemological ambiguity of a greeting that is also a wishing..
Brilliant! I find it ironic however, that simultaneously, humans will discover remedies to prolong life, and at the same time become obsolete. What's the point of extended life, if ones existence serves no purpose? Life is a battle, and overcoming the obstacles of that battle, give meaning to ones life. In my humble opinion, that is. These opinions should be seriously considered, or the 21st Century may very well be our last, and indeed the ........?........ shall inherit the earth (fill in blank as deemed appropriate to ones belief system).
Why so glum? I have no idea of the mind of god, or even if there is one to know. I know that a beautiful sunset resonates, and even more if I share it. I am not promoting crystals or feathers. Life can be struggle. We even put ourselves into struggle when we have free time! what is tennis, or football? It ain't the last century kid. And I want you to be enthused with the idea of living forever. Soooooo much to learn, to evolve.
@@StephiSensei26 Your reply, though possibly playful, elucidates nothing. You said "What's the point of extended life, if ones existence serves no purpose? " who suggested that existence serves no purpose? That suggested that you are glum. You posited "Life is a battle, and overcoming the obstacles of that battle, give meaning to ones life." Struggle is only one part of many of what life is right? It is most certainly not the only thing that gives meaning to it. If you are concerned about becoming "obsolete" I urge you to re-define what your purpose is, and if there isn't one, find a way of accepting it and throwing a Tiki party! That's my subjectively objective take on it.
@@jaiku99 (1) I'm not sure stories are "not real". In some sense they are quite real. I guess that's more of a philosophical question than a linguistic one. (2) I don't know too much about this, but I think he might be oversimplifying and mischaracterizing Dayanand Saraswati, for example. He's right to an extent: people like Saraswati did advocate going back to the Vedas I guess. But I don't think these people wanted to find solutions exclusively in the Vedas. These points may seem like nitpicks, and to an extent they are, but I feel like he could have been a bit more nuanced. But overall his analysis of the power of stories is quite compelling, so I *am* sympathetic to his main thesis. It's been a while and I don't quite remember what exactly I disagreed with *that* much.
Never heard of this guy. Thank you for sharing his content. Maybe our channel can research some of his works and link it to our genre of mental health.
@@thementalhealthtrek9908 Well I’m sure the 3 subscribers you have on your channel will appreciate being exposed to something that millions of people across the world have been discussing for a couple of years. Don’t steal content tho - get permission and cite resources too. Oh, and read his books maybe? 🤦♀️
Totally agreed with the author about analogy of a chimpanzee and himself on a deserted island. But Peter Schiff would not only beat the chimp to emerge as the winner of the survival but he also would go on to build a better life for himself as well as thousands of others on and beyond the island. The difference is obvious between the author and the guy named Peter. You’re welcome.
It's not just peachy-wonderful that humans can organize on large scales. It also brings some pretty horrific problems. When people get into groups of large enough numbers to start abstracting each other, individuals become expendable. Plus, there always ends up being a few at the top with enough power to make them mentally unstable and dangerous.
"Money is the greatest story ever told and believed" - YNH Perhaps a conversation between Sadhguru and Yuval Noah Harari on humankind would be fantastic!
A well-branded fraud with a cult following and an actual thinker? Please. Sadguru and his following are an embarassment to a long illustrious line of Indian philosophers including Shankaracharya, Vivekananda, SreeNarayana Guru, etc.
@@sumitshrestha6071 well, I guess, life could be a form of fulfilment of guesses just before our curiosity runs dry. Amazingly, pleasure seems to justified those fulfilment too.
Technology does not tell stories; that is its limitation; it is human hearts, minds, creative thinking, imagination and human spirit tells and lives our stories; these are dynamic and empowering.
I loved Sapiens and Homo Deus so much that I bought them for my daughter too, then a year later after re-reading them, got all fired up about them again and stupidly bought her the same books again :)
One of the most brilliant video article I’ve come across in a long time. The second half has a lot of Nietzsche (and thus spoke zarathustra, the overman) when man has the ability to compete with a “god-like ability, therefore crossing that threshold for the first time and altering his destiny as was when man first made and used a tool/weapon, separating himself from his natural born limitations. The second was when he learned how to harness fire, the rise of man’s own forces separate from nature’s. The third is the 21st century of crossing over to a tech reality, unleashing god-like abilities and powers (Nietzsche’s overman).
Even this is just another story to tell, even this story can have horrible consequences (with our technologies even more devastating). It's out to people to decide the outcome of the any story.
@chris m you are right in some way, however in the future there will be another story about this time, maybe you will be amazed, but even now politics/ideologies etc. benefits one person/group at the risk of horrible consequences, they make up a story for you that you need to hear in order to be happy. We worship those gods more fanatical then people from old times. They tell you what you need to be happy. Just changed the object of worshiping. Piece of paper? subscribers/likes? bigger house? expensive car? iphone? Name it. As I told, It's just another story which includes previous stories.
One needs to read a lot more of Vedas to know their actual message, especially the Upanishads. They don't at all talk about paradise or the idea of god as described by Abrahamic culture. They are only concerned with human conditioning and what lies beyond this robotic living which is our true nature. Upanishad text is highly scientific in its approach towards the seeker. Therefore, these Vedas are still as useful as they were a thousand years ago. Like Harari says its is our ability to make and believe in the stories and Upanishads basically provide a way to go beyond faith and belief without denying the worldly reality as it is. One can read great german philosopher Arthur Schopanhaeur's work to understand it better. Even he has been highly misunderstood in the modern times.
And also the most caring, kind, good willing good acting species on earth. So your eco-faschistic nonsense is not helping any animals nor plants to thrive.
Thank you for a wonderful summary of our history and a probable future in the near future. This video explains a lot of questions we all have of how we got here and which direction we are probably headed.
The first core of Yuval's book is that our superior Imagination is what makes us superior to the rest of animals (maybe there are others but that doesn't mean imagination is untrue, invalid or unimportant). The second core is that our superior habilty to cooperate (granted by our Imagination and its Imagined Realities) is what has made us be the most powerful living being in the world. Cooperation. NOT Competing like animals do in Nature. NOT Competing like we were taught when we were young. It's precisely competing what has doomed the rest of animals to be at our mercy (mercyless mercy more like it). The fact that maybe other things besides our Imagination have helped us into being more cooperative is another history for maybe another book. Thanks Yuval for showing us the path to Progress. The path to Happiness: IMAGINATION and COOPERATION. That being said though I think his book is so full of wrong or pessimistic ideas (which most I must admit I also shared) that I felt the need to fight them to try to "boost the morale of the troop" (and my own too by the way) a little bit (nowadays it's not precisely bursting out of joy). I know it wasn't needed because thanks to the least common of all senses (the common sense) almost everybody already disagreed with Yuval in many of the things he said (in amazon lots individuals already decided to give only one star out of five to his book) but thanks for giving me the opportunity, the freedom to argue some points in what I think it has been a constructive way more than a destrucitve or disrespectful one so common this days. I promise this is the last one: The american independence declaration has no sense if we translate it in objective biological terms. I DO NOT AGREE. As Yuval himself says in his book if we tranlate it it becomes "All humans have evolved in a different way and have born with mutable traits among which there is LIFE and the pursuit of PLEASURE". Personally I find this statement very sensible, reasonable and realistic rather than senseless. Even if we are 99,99% biologically equals as Science proved sequencing our genome, we are effectively 0,01% different. We have mutable traits (in the past or in undeveloped countries women have bigger "backyards" and breasts than modern women living in developed countries because the last ones, thanks to hospitals, don't need to have such big attributes to give birth to their children, individuals living in countries with high sun exposure have darker skin and eyes than the ones living in countries with less sun light, etc.). If not everything almost everything we do it's to obtain pleasure in the present or in the future or in the next life or at least to avoid suffering which would decrease our current level of pleasure (if we end up obtaining pleasure or not it's another history). We are alife. Following the wise, realistic Imagined Reality of Thomas Jefferson U.S.A. Americans (and other countries too) progressed much more than Hammurabi would have dreamt off because if we translate Hammurabi's Imagined Reality (code) into objective biological terms we get "a human eye it's the same as an entire human being" and that's nuts. To be fair with Hamurabi though the translation should be "a human noble's eye it's the same as an entire slave human being" which I (as follower of the Imagined Reality of the Human Rights) still think it's nuts. Sadly many people, even entire countries like India (not the only one though) are nuts and instead of following wise realistic Imagined Realites like the ones Gandhi or Thomas Jefferson imagined long ago, they trust nuts Imagined Realites like Hamurabi's code (Indian castes system for example). Curiously lots of americans (but not the only ones of course) can buy dozens of extremely cheap t-shirts made in India but few Indians can buy dozens of american made products (shirts or whatever). I hope some day Indians listen to Gandhi. Maybe that day americans (and others) will not be able to buy dozens of cheap t-shirts but breaking news ahead: no one needs dozens of t-shirts to live a decent life (but no one can live decently belonging to the untouchable caste). Oh, and I almost forgot one more "little" thing that made Agriculture and outstanding smash if we compare it to Hunter-Gatherers. It forced people to planificate, to IMAGINE the FUTURE harvest, etc. Having in mind that Human Imagination and Imagined Realities have been the key to human success, a system, an Imagined Reality which enhances imagination like Agriculture, we could say that it was the mother of all Imagined Realities. It was the mother of progress. The mother of HAPPINESS. Oh, and one last thing, even if U.S.A. Americans (and many others) followed great Imagined Realities like the one Thomas Jefferson imagined making them progress more than anyone, in the recent past have been following a very funny (though a little outdated for my taste) Imagined Reality called the Law of the Strongest while taking by force whatever they wished from whomever they wished. Curiously, nowadays, their own younger generations, their own beautiful babies are obediently following the same example thanks to their mirror neurons and no longer accept the results of a free electoral peaceful system called Democracy and just want to invade the Capitol by force to stablish their own new (ancient more like it) world order. Fitting. Fitting indeed. Knock, knock, THEY ARE HEEEREEE.....(progress and the happiness it brings I'm not not so sure). Truth be told maybe all started in Western Europe after all. In October 2017 to be precise. Back then Europe made the Law of the Strongest become trendy once more showing to the entire World (lots of international journalists were there covering the event) that even if it was a a bit old, that Law was much more cool than wasting time in Democracy or useless Freedom (pff who wants those. highly overated them two anyways. I'm joking). Mmh, unwise, unwise lesson to be taught indeed. Since then, curiously, mirror neurons started to work once again and BANG!! If you have the brute force you have the right. By right of might, yes sir!! (faster and more resolutive than all the other Imagined Realites like dances, languages, religions, science, laws, democracies, boring, zzzz snoring. I'm joking once again). Equation's result: Capitol invaded, Ukraine invaded, south american countries like Peru rebelling violently and putting their presidents in jail, etc. Butterflies and tornados maybe? One thing is for sure though. The Universe and its equalizers equations will bring Justice. One way or the other. For all. Maybe there could be a way to teach a different lesson to our beautiful babies to make their mirror neurons start working in a different more democratic, peaceful, productive way. Who knows, who cares, not me (well, maybe a little actually).
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In short, we humans are responsible for our misery, the same way we are responsible for our greatness.
Yeah, humanity is a double-edged sword. We're cool... but we suck too.
@@captaingerbil1234 agreed
@@captaingerbil1234 read the book if you haven't it is worth it.
@@hankensteinn I'm a little over halfway through it right now actually. It's a wonderful book.
I agree with this. With a good story, you can convince any human anything. So I believe the 1% have had a forked tongue for some time. If you can convince Cooperation you can move the flock in a direction. And here we are. . .
For me, the biggest contribution from the book Sapiens by Yuval is that human's success as a specie is our unique ability for mass cooperations through stories we tell ourselves and each other, and it is both a gift and a curse. It allows us to do great things such as build cities and cultures, trades with each other, make progress in science and technology, create great work of arts and entertainments -- but also lead to conflicts that causes wars, animal cruelties, racisms, sexism, financial inequality, ecological disasters... and that all of it can be changed with the right story. It strangely gives me hope because of that perspective, and the knowledge that the most powerful and efficient tool for changes is for the stories to change.
Also, I no longer judge as harshly with ideas I don't connect with personally, such as religions or political ideals. We all have to believe in some form of fictions for our world to function, including things I have taken for granted such as money, moralities, and human rights. It is what make us human. I am more open minded about ideas -- or at least know that mine is not as valid as another or their more invalid than mine. There's obvious exceptions when stories cause real suffering and harms, but the rest, they don't matter so much -- in the end we're all just talking chimps with tools, and stories.
Very well written man
Good review. Insight is the next level in communication?
Well summarised and your attitude of tolerance is so necessary for us to live together in harmony. But alas, it is exactly the stories that have been told and continue to be told and the new stories that will be told that make me not hold much hope in humankind moving forward.
A curse indeed, a double edge sword, to trust authority with no trustworthiness.
I am very much in agreement with your brilliant synopsis. It reminds me of where I see myself heading philosophically in my old age. I'm becoming a child of the socratic paradox. That philosophy of "The one thing I know is I know nothing" is something I try to remind myself of every day. The possibility of anything that I believe may be flawed helps me to keep an open mind and become less judgmental of others . What I find so strange and sometimes infuriating about our species is for every one person who steps up to lead millions of us are willing to follow. Why? I ask myself why. Why do we so desperately want to believe in the stories? Why do we WANT to be led?
Also I wonder do people actually believe the stories or do they just WANT to believe the stories. In other words can you actually convince yourself that something is true just because you want it to be?
At the end of the day I realize how futile me pondering this is and the only thing that I should probably find important is how to find inner peace.
I will depart with this thought, I ponder if there is a way to be a good person that is universal and timeless. I've come up with these three fundamental beliefs,
Each one of us must strive to become our own leader,
To accept that we have no right that our beliefs have no right over others. In my opinion one of the most destructive beliefs/ dillusions humans share is that we have the right to dictate how other people should live their lives. So number 2 would be to remind ourselves the words SHOULD and SHOULDN'T when referring to other people are Best kept to a minimum.
Lastly, to accept that all we believe we know is not above being flawed and that's OK. That acknowledgment is what will keep us moving forward.
Would love feedback especially if it's contradictory.
Regards Santiago
“Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.” ~ Henri Bergson
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason and madness both in equal measure.
@@chesterules perhaps reason can lead to madness as we become aware of our future deaths and that everything will disappear.
the only creature that contemplates the future
Assuming no other creature posseses the capacity for reason is itself unreasonable
@@jeremywvarietyofviewpoints3104 its a very useful exercise to meditate on one's mortality
The greatest gift to humanity is our ability to learn, and the lesson to learn, is that nothing is more important than empathy.
Empathy is one our greatest needs. Presently there is a great lack of it. Empathy for all sentient beings would bring us closer to an ideal world
@@beverlybrooks7657 This sounds like humans were really empathetic in the past. We were terrible in the past
Humans are herd animals who do nothing without a leader, unfortunately all the leaders are supplied by the elite group who want to trick the masses into willingly participating in their own self-destruction.
This book catapulted my love for books, since then I’ve accumulated a little library of books.
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Sorry to hear that
It's one of the best book I've ever read. It really changed my perspective of the world.
Sad.
Well…If one day it bring you to Ann Rand, I will stop criticizing this book.
Good Quote, Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe
Im going to keep writing my own story as long as i am conscious on this planet. LOVE
I absolutely enjoyed this lesson you compiled this concept so well and easy to digest. Sadly the people who should have listened to this aren't going to listen.
"Respect others and their property and the world is better for it. Domination is a weakness resulting in not only suffering but extinction. Question this need to dominate, then explore that with emotional and intellectual honesty." - The Uneducated but wise
@@AzzekaTheRealOne correct. no one likes a bully. This is why during the civil rights movement the country cried out against the treatment of the protesters. Fire hoses and police dog maulings are unacceptable in a comfortable, civilized society. We don't do public hangings anymore etc etc. BUT domination can be done socially, without oppression. I would like to continue to dominate the narrative with truth about social issues like apathy in a post scarcity society, the demography issue of less than 2 million people left on earth in 400 years or less, the ocean's carbon cycle and phanerozoic c02 being left out of the conversation while we went so many years without an EPA head.... The clean air act was the last thing our government did anything of worth until our last guy pulled us out of syria.
My most favorite line by Mr Harari is "Never underestimate human stupidity"
I could SWEAR a "fascist" said that before Mr Harari...
.. if you really think that is the most interesting thing he has said than you probably also wouldn't get the irony of saying that.
He certainly has not underestimated human stupidity! His ideas about "stories" directly fly into the face of all human knowledge and science. His should have stuck to his own story-telling while "teaching" history.
@@refundreplay Communist r definitely the stupidest people.
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a side note: Please be aware of the background music. It has a subliminal effect on listener of this lecture. It is there to make the information seem more profound. Music is one of the techniques used to influence the human imagination and emotions.
Sound and resonance control what we observe
What Yuval wants to say is that our sheer ability to concoct sh*t ..makes us the greatest being on this earth.
No, it's the unique ability to believe in stories and then cooperate.
@@shrabonibabuconcotion of stories...(shit)..😂
He would know haha
Lol. Kinda. Even when believable. He is going to show us how. You too, can write a book. But I am plenty liable myself. Pain can arrouse pride or humbleness. That's true with the pain of criticism, as well. While we all may need correction and change of previously coveted direction, we still need love each other as ourselves lest we be caught in likewise snare. Many slaves to an idea or foolishness can be pulled under the waves manacled to the same chains. But many can be pulled up by wings of truth, love and grace. Fear not those who can kill the body, but that which can cast into hell. Mercy rejoices against judgment, and justice, judgment and salvation kiss in God.
This is the best book I have ever read just like the audio. I am still reading it and with audio I hope I will understand it better. Thank you very much. You touched on almost all complexities we face in our daily lives and prophesized about the future.
The success of humanity lies within its ability to cooperate and believe in one story but if such story fails, could also lead to its demise. Humanity's strength is also its weakness.
astute summary
Or you have different groups that believe in different stories (because its unreasonable and unjust to expect all human life to follow "one story") and as these groups learn more, they are able to be open minded and realize where their story ends and someone else's continues. Or a new story begins. Science is a new story beginning, but many refuted science and stuck with their metaphysical knowledge from their religious texts. Those people got left behind because they confused starting a new story, with dismissing their old stories. The old stories can have value but the new stories need to be at the forefront because there is good reason for them being new. It's not about following one story, it's about constantly following many stories and being always willing to find value in an untold story, as long as it has some provable bearing. Speaking entirely in vague metaphor opens this up to be easily argued against but hopefully you all understand my point. Civilization has never and will never believe in one story.
Precisely! The story that science is now trying to tell the American people and the world at large is that climate change will have very serious consequences and we must recognize our limitations. This is difficult to get across to Americans in particular. I taught earth sci and bio at the HS and com college level in the US, ocassionally engaging students in debate. I came to the conclusion that they believed as did their parents that anything is possible. For example, many of my students believed that teleportation is a real possibility, yet these same young people also believed that Noah's Ark is real. It's a crazy place
One story= tyranny
This clown is nothing more than a globalist justifying his nonsense. He knows if his message was told to the masses. He would be hanging from a tree. Anyone suggesting digital dictatorship will Become more efficient than individual liberty….has an agenda.
He is a modern day Nazi.
One of the few life altering books I read during lockdown
Do suggest it.?
@@abdulazizhawsah9884 Yes, definitely
Very eye opening and at times haunting when you realise how easily a human mind can be controlled with fictional ideas
RIP ur lockdown
Best book I have ever read
A few points:
1. Religious stories are not about the material world, they are about the spiritual world. Don't expect religion to give an answer as to how to make a new computer. But yes look to religion to find an answer as to how to save your soul.
2. Homo sapiens is an aberration among all other life forms on earth. Humans encode knowledge as to how to survive not just in the DNA like every other form of life, but to a major degree in the learned knowledge passed from person to person and generation to generation. This is what distinguishes man from other life forms.
3. Technology is not the solution, technology is the problem, created by the mind of man which itself is an aberration.
4. Humanity among other forms of life on Earth bears an uncanny resemblance to a tissue malignancy on an individual's body.
5. Humans have triggered the 5th mass extinction event which may very well extinguish humanity as it progresses to its ultimate end. This is another way in which humanity resembles a malignant tumor on a body which dies when the malignancy achieves its ultimate end.
6. Marxism and communism were stories that sprang from the mind of man, and led to the death of a hundred million people.
7. Death occurs because of the second law of thermodynamics. No science can overcome the laws of nature.
8. The stories that people believe do organize human life, but no story, no matter how scientifically sound or technologically developed can save man from his own foolishness.
9. The stories about God in the Bible are not pure invention springing from the creative mind of man, but rather a reflection of the creative force of order in the universe whom some people refer to as God. As such, no story that presumes man can perform such creative acts and control every aspect of the natural world can ultimately be held to be true. Can a man put an electron spinning around every nucleus in every atom? Can man's technology create millions of galaxies spinning in the universe? Religious stories simply reflect the order found in our world. New human stories like that of Karl Marx just create a huge mess. So don't get your hopes up that we humans can create stories that will surpass the truths found in the the Bible. In my humble opinion.
Glad to see someone with some sense in this comment thread.
Especially the stories of rape and child massacre! Go Jebus!!!
Mr. Yuval deserves all the accolades and admiration for his noble work.🙂
Noah's book is on my top 10 books EVER list.
Same here.
FInished Sapien, will read Homo Deus and 21 Lessons next
Same here.
@@brunoe1891 my commie daughter turned me on to it. I’m enjoying it. Did not enjoy their unwarranted criticism of Noah, but… I took Noah’s book to be broad speculation and enjoyed it too.
Excellent. Good video and presentation. Oddly, in recent years (I'm 75 yrs), I've felt disconnected somehow from the nearer and greater society. I identified so much with the "good story" idea you presented. Through it, I recognized that the story going on in my mind was unique only to me. What to do? I don't know. But glad I clicked into this video. "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" was certainly not about what I had imagined and was expecting. It was a good story -- but without an ending. I guess that's the way history is, huh?
The realization of how life works can be devastating for our mental health.
I have no idea what to do either, it is very interesting though.
It's funny that we (or want to) stay optimistic anyway !
Our minds delve in the non-physical world. As our physical abilities dwindle, we have to seek shelter within our minds. So "stories" becomes more important to us. It protects us and keeps us sane.
@@antonisskarlatos5202 I have a purpose...you have a purpose!
@@kpewliu4348 I had a "near death experience" once (the luminous tunnel, the feeling of bliss and "homecoming", greeted by departed loved ones etc., the whole "nine yards") and ever since, no amount of "logic" or "science" can disuade me from a fundamental "gut-feeling" and an unshakable "certainty" that THIS ain't all there is and there's more to come! I "understand" that it could be a hallucination but I "KNOW" it's not!
Thanks for being here Jerry.
Aristotle said it best with his Chain of Being - the highest form of existence is to be able to think about thinking.
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it. -Daniel Khaneman
I read the book in more than a month and watched this video for an hour and I realized there's a lot of things I didn't really get from the book but from this video :)
anyway, great work and salute to mr. Harrari
Yuval deserves more recognition.
And more criticism
He does get more recognition from people who think he's one of Klaus Schwabs rent boys because he talked at the WEF. These idiot conspiracy theorists don't realise that Jane Goodall also spoke there, hahahahaha....we're gunna have to keep an eye on them chimps now! The secret Apeminati!!!
No
I enjoyed that immensely. Reminds me of something I ask myself everyday. Why for every one of us who steps up to lead do millions and millions of us want to follow? Why do we want to be led? Is it just our herd mentality?
I really like how he always refers the fact that we must keep living on some fiction in order to feel secured. It's a common theme we humans had ever since we began imagining and fabricating stories, and identified with them so much that we fear they'll cease and will fight to protect them, even if it means going to war (ironically the only reason we even have these stories is because you have a crowd that believes, but has no biological reality).
He gave the example of the Industrial Revolution - the change was too drastic and different than how they're used to living and thus they just had to hold onto some 'childhood' stories and aggrandize them for feeling more secure. Same with the declaration of human rights which lead to the civil war. Same with territories and country alliances which lead to WWI.
This is why I believe there would be an enormous amount of resistance towards the emergence of non-organic life, biological and cyborg engineering because at some point it may actually change what we already define as human, and as humans this is scary.
"... and it's the same basic reaction: When you threaten the stability of the world, many people, especially people who are about to lose from the new situation try to hold onto something stable and secure; and their first instinct is to go back, back to some story which seems eternal, immutable, and immune to all these dangers and changes."
Also mentions you cannot find answers for new specific problems in old stories because back then these specifics did not exist, and that instead we'll probably see the emergence of completely new stories and ideologies/religions.
Wowww finally a quality video in TH-cam. Thanks for your efforts... keep going good job
Everyone needs to hear this.
“For though they knew Adonai, they did not glorify him as Adonai or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools” Romans 1:21-22 CSB
Best explanation of the matrix I've heard. And now we're creating the metaverse. More layers of illusion
Read St. Thomas Aquinas. You’ll understand the world a lot better. ♥️
Fight or flight?
That was the original plight.
Food, wherefrom to come,
Or was I to become?
The thought was bothersome.
Confusion, confusion,
All appeared to be in collusion.
Naked and cold,
Barely on life I had a hold.
Life was not wrapped in gold.
But, today, it gotta be told,
I did win a medal of gold.
How and whence it came?
The story is not one of shame.
Rejoice, you've earned your fame.
Africa was my home.
The Earth is now my own.
Yet, confusion knows no end.
It'll follow me to the last bend.
Confusion, thou art my salvation.
So said YNH. Thank you, my late-life favourite author.
Excellent! Should be integrated into our educational system.
Geroge well said
Slaves to ultra rich.......hahhhhahahhh........
False prophet........
Anti christ ?
"Respect others and their property and the world is better for it. Domination is a weakness resulting in not only suffering but extinction. Question this need to dominate, then explore that with emotional and intellectual honesty." - The Uneducated but wise.
Just because something exists only in the mind doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Respect, and thank you so much! This is honestly one of the wisest speech I ever heard, the awareness of the author is really impressive. Thanks again, I'm looking for the book by prof. Harari
i bought Sapiens a little while ago...it joined other books on the shelf...to be read one day FOR SURE! :-)
After this video i i will actually read it, now...before my copy of The Patterning Instinct (Jeremy Lent) arrives.
Dont waste your time. Human history is full of superb insights, tremendous deductive and inductive reasoning and astonishing and ingenious hypotheses that were presented and proven and many more that were prescient and only later found to be true and changes quickly adopted to reflect them.. The list is massive. I can think of many right off the top of my head. If you dont know history you would be well to begin with Aristotle and go right up through Issac Newton seeing what effects these minds caused. And the ingenious insights that raised civilizations and directed refined thought increase 1000 fold thereafter. Attempts such as are blatant in this insouciant video to dumb down or cast as stupid humankind's feats of true insight and reason come straight out of the Marxist playbook. This author's "story" is mediocre and his data is cherry-picked, nade to manipulate his contorted bounds and leaps in ignorant reductionism aimed at human history and advancement.. You will find these kinds of authors and the infantile books like Sapiens appealing to those who know next to nothing about actual history. Go to your library and pull off most any book especially historical-reference section, any book that overviews human advances arising from philosophy, politics, economics, mathematics, geometry or the physical sciences.
This guy is no one to admire. He's cold and sees people as disposable.
Stories are all we have. Let's create better stories.
I love First Principles thinking, even if it means reminding humans that we're merely advanced mammals.
If you believe that then there's no value in human life. There's no value in your existence
@@jollygoodyo you are right, there is none
@@thetaomega7816 Then why are you still alive?
Strength in numbers. Think how much stronger we could be if we didn't fight each other
Lots of aha moments and insights that I need to think about. I agree with first principles thinking and everything about this video makes me think. The one thing I feel that Yuval is missing in his books and his video is the discussion of greed. Many of the wars were fought not because of stories but because of greed. Greed is responsible for many of our problems so i feel it's an elephant in the room in Yuval's writings.
yes. and at this rate, greed will be the end of homo sapiens in the near future
the story is that you need more. greed is another narrative
Our gullibility is the source of our power!
This is really thought-provoking, with several “aha” or “hmm” moments. Humans are fundamentally a paradox. The ancients had worded it as “both beast and angel”. You can see it as “the glass half full or half empty”. To me humans remind me of the physicist’s particle-wave duality of “fundamental reality”, in the sense that *our* human reality is as much objective or material as it is symbolic or imaginary. 21st century physics has totally deconstructed (and destroyed) the concept of “objective reality” and “matter”. Even a block of hard granite is more than 99.99% empty space, with the rest being energy fields (or something like that!). In addition, as Yuval points out, it is our “stories”, our beliefs or our theories, that have shaped the objective reality of our planet, making it now to a large degree “the product of thought”. It sounds totally crazy or even worse, presumptious. But it seems to be that way. And if it really is, then it’s in good company: physicists now consider that the ultimate stuff that “physical reality” is made of is… “information”. Of course, like energy, nobody knows what it is. But like energy it is fundamental. Some will hear an echo of this in “In the beginning was the word”. As Yuval says, who knows what the 21st century holds in store for us! But if we want it to end like a good story, then we can remember Stephen Hawking’s “other formula”: Our chances of survival = (wisdom / knowledge) = wisdom divided by knowledge, so that if knowledge increases but ONLY knowledge…
Really enjoyed the book and this talk too. Above all the gentle heavenly music in the background was a perfect touch! Good job on this video
I’m going to share this great documentary!
I'm also very selective, and did it too.
Read the book! It's very insightful and interesting!
Also in short, fiction is the foundation of human civilization's progression.
And regression
@@AG-ni8jm honestly,
@@AG-ni8jm like religion
and faith in whatever they make up or believe
No, I think it had more to do with reality, like, how to grow food...don't over think stuff.
The conclusion being the Best ending on still the Stories.
Progress makes people Happpy?
YES. Progress makes people happy because it's a process in which people successively work in solving the problems of the community and when they finally solve them another ones are faced. This process gives happiness in three ways:
1-Working to solve community problems it's a good way (not the only one of course) to give people a worthy goal to work for. Having a worthy goal to work for makes people life more meaningful and that makes them happier. This point only benefits atheists because believers already have a meaningful life and they are happy with it.
2-When the people who were working solving the community problem finally solve it, they experiment satisfactorial feelings that make them happy. This point benefits both atheists and believers.
3-When the community problem is solved, the life conditions of the community improve and that makes all its members to be happier. This point benefits both atheists and believers.
Apart from providing happiness, working for a worthy goal keeps the mind busy, this way, one doesn't have time to think that we ignore the meaning of all that exists (worthy goals and human life included). Maybe this doesn't grant happiness but at least helps keeping depression at bay. Once again, this point only benefits atheists because believers already know the meaning of existence itself and that makes them happy.
It's important to realize atheists need more than beleievers the existance of PROGRESS to be happy but when PROGRESS is achieved both believers and atheists reach the same level of happiness. Maybe that's why in the periods of History which ahteists have been more numerous, the PROGRESS of Humanity has been greater and in the periods wich believers have been majority PROGRESS has been slower.
What makes PROGRESS even greater it's the fact that never stops. It's an INFINITE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS.
Wow he broken down the matrix/society constructs in such a concise manner very intriguing.
Those frustrating Humans!!...can't live with them..can't live without them
I read about two books a week for the last 4 years. His book is the most thought provoking book Ive ever read.
The chapters about money and capitalism are the most interesting business concepts ive ever read.
@@Shelulita maybe, what are some good ones then?
Tried ´´Ecce homo´´, ´´The sublime object of ideology´´ or ´´Ecrits´´, ´´Anthropologie structurale deux´´? This kind of books. For me personally, it was nothing special and wasted day but at least I could debate it with a good friend who felt like you about Harari´s book.
Human mind has its ego which is making them feel that he can challenge the nature. But the physical creation is so miniscule compare to the open space/cosmos.
Finally a scholar who shares, in a simple way, his knowledge with common people. That's great! Congratulations.
I have never felt Valued by the human collective, There for I have never felt a meaningful intimate connection with the collective of humanity ! : (
He’s an evil man
Positivity thinking will always outlast negativity.... A person without hope will live in eternal fear, which is as good as hell.
Europeans and new land = The Americas. Overall an excellent essay! Thank you for sharing this!
That was deeply insightful and original - really great work!
Such an amazing book!
Blessed are the storytellers for they shall create gods
This expressed perfectly "we are learning to manufacture, bodies and brains and minds of our self and other organisms". Scary stuff when you really think about it. Non organic life is not my idea of something that will lend a good quality of life for those currently existing. "The emergence of useless people." doesn't sound like a rainbow!
Depopulate ........
This guy is stupid ......tricked by SATAN .......
Technology is boring .....imagine yourself surrounded by digital , electronic equipments only ......
Robot animals .....robot colleagues .....robot flowers .....hahahahha
We don't need to overthink what's important is how to live life with purpose, to enjoy, to fulfill it . I believe that humans are creations of Omniscient God who's given power and authority and dominion over all other creations on earth. I like Yuval's intelligence however I like to live light esp during pandemic time.
Love and peace to All 🙏
Excellent brief history and interesting information. Thank you for sharing!
It is an astonishing analytical speach The speaker is narrating the evolution from stone age and comparing all the animals with human being and finaly he is selecting sympancy with human being The human have been creating evolution economics science and technology.He is informing Dollar has been making miracle for last 2 centuries.zin future the whole world will come in to the controle of A.I and genetic engineering Thanks. KANDADSMY TIRUPPUR TAMILNADU INDIA
I watch, I listen and I understand. I don't know how to believe.
Lesson here#
Control the narrative and make them believe in it.
The world ends...as we know it!
Being more Caring and Compassionate with others (cooperate) than the rest of the animals it's the engine which has made us "run the world" (before humans the world was already running). Our Imagined Realities (political systems, religions, etc.) have been the awesome tool to channel these emotions and progress. The same way we can be more caring and compassionate, we also can be more selfish and hateful. It's the other side of the same coin, it's the price of being more emotional than an oyster. The same way we can "run the world" we can also "ruin it". What will we choose?
This is my favourite book of all time.
Grandioso Harari, I love to hear you.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
such a beautiful listen. thank you
Reading it now.
Congratulations for your work! 👍👍👍
I have not read the book, and this video obviously cannot comprehensively cover all that may be in the book. But the video does not discuss the importance of language development in sapiens (although that is perhaps implicit in the "stories" he so emphasizes?); it also seems to mostly attribute human motivation and cooperation to "stories", when plain old greed and necessity, especially in early humans (we need food, let's take that other tribe's food) and even later (let's conquer and plunder (Romans, Genghis Khan)) was and is also a large part of what motivates human cooperation.
The fact that people find this reformulation of biological reductionism "deeply insightful" tells a lot about the inherently contradictory epistemological nihilism of our times.
@@daveydudely9954 Lol. Very good response. 😂
Hey, man, I'm president of the local Contradictory Epistemological Nihilists (South Eastern Montana) and I'm not really sure if I hate or am proud of your comment. But. it will certainly be the center-point conversation of our February meeting!
@@larsjames777 Sadly I can't be there (there's an ocean between us), but I look forward to the minutes of that meeting if at all possible!
@@theunisholthuis4212 I will send you an overview of the meeting and would look forward to your insight and input concerning our club. We're currently debating whether to make our motto: "Fuck Off!" or "Have a Nice Day!" Needless to say there is a bit of drinking and covert drug use during our meetings; fist fights are rare, but agreeable resolutions to the direction our club takes in the future is also an ongoing dynamic situation. Sadly, the one thing we do agree on is that we are all part of the Global Useless Class, and don't really care who knows this fact. Should I send you a club application?
@@larsjames777 Sounds like I'll fit right in. If a vote is cast, I'd like to have it known that - although my subjective choice of attitude might be nothing more than a meaningless effort at self-affirmation - I would vote for 'Have a Nice Day?", to emphasize the epistemological ambiguity of a greeting that is also a wishing..
Really a short factual history of Sapiens...love from India Harrari🌷🌷
0:57 Uhm, why did it cut to that frame when he started talking about insignificant apes?
This whole book is just weird and opinionated
You totally misinterpreted it.
The scene shows a tribe of Africa, and our ancestors come from there.
the choices made with (what appears to be) stock footage are superb.
Wooo 41 minutes of sapiens 🙂 , thanks
When he said something about "useless people" I felt that...
Brilliant! I find it ironic however, that simultaneously, humans will discover remedies to prolong life, and at the same time become obsolete. What's the point of extended life, if ones existence serves no purpose? Life is a battle, and overcoming the obstacles of that battle, give meaning to ones life. In my humble opinion, that is. These opinions should be seriously considered, or the 21st Century may very well be our last, and indeed the ........?........ shall inherit the earth (fill in blank as deemed appropriate to ones belief system).
Why so glum? I have no idea of the mind of god, or even if there is one to know. I know that a beautiful sunset resonates, and even more if I share it. I am not promoting crystals or feathers. Life can be struggle. We even put ourselves into struggle when we have free time! what is tennis, or football? It ain't the last century kid. And I want you to be enthused with the idea of living forever. Soooooo much to learn, to evolve.
@@editor4958 Glum? I didn't think I was being glum, but merely subjectively objective. Thx!
@@StephiSensei26 Your reply, though possibly playful, elucidates nothing. You said "What's the point of extended life, if ones existence serves no purpose? " who suggested that existence serves no purpose? That suggested that you are glum. You posited "Life is a battle, and overcoming the obstacles of that battle, give meaning to ones life." Struggle is only one part of many of what life is right? It is most certainly not the only thing that gives meaning to it. If you are concerned about becoming "obsolete" I urge you to re-define what your purpose is, and if there isn't one, find a way of accepting it and throwing a Tiki party! That's my subjectively objective take on it.
I agree with maybe only half his points, but it's thought-provoking.
What are the things you disagree ? Let us see what you got
@@jaiku99 (1) I'm not sure stories are "not real". In some sense they are quite real. I guess that's more of a philosophical question than a linguistic one. (2) I don't know too much about this, but I think he might be oversimplifying and mischaracterizing Dayanand Saraswati, for example. He's right to an extent: people like Saraswati did advocate going back to the Vedas I guess. But I don't think these people wanted to find solutions exclusively in the Vedas. These points may seem like nitpicks, and to an extent they are, but I feel like he could have been a bit more nuanced. But overall his analysis of the power of stories is quite compelling, so I *am* sympathetic to his main thesis. It's been a while and I don't quite remember what exactly I disagreed with *that* much.
@@AdityaKashi ok . Fair enough
Never heard of this guy. Thank you for sharing his content. Maybe our channel can research some of his works and link it to our genre of mental health.
Never heard of the guy?
@@jeremiahbridges1189 Nope. But glad to come across him. We might even put some of his content on our channel if it is good
You should definitely read his trilogy.
@@stefanobregante5633 Thanks for the recommendation
@@thementalhealthtrek9908 Well I’m sure the 3 subscribers you have on your channel will appreciate being exposed to something that millions of people across the world have been discussing for a couple of years. Don’t steal content tho - get permission and cite resources too. Oh, and read his books maybe? 🤦♀️
I would like to see a debate on Vedas between him and Acharya Prashant.
The book is good
Totally agreed with the author about analogy of a chimpanzee and himself on a deserted island. But Peter Schiff would not only beat the chimp to emerge as the winner of the survival but he also would go on to build a better life for himself as well as thousands of others on and beyond the island.
The difference is obvious between the author and the guy named Peter.
You’re welcome.
Peter Schiff is a rockin' righteously right on dude...
Absolutely well done.
It's not just peachy-wonderful that humans can organize on large scales. It also brings some pretty horrific problems. When people get into groups of large enough numbers to start abstracting each other, individuals become expendable. Plus, there always ends up being a few at the top with enough power to make them mentally unstable and dangerous.
"Money is the greatest story ever told and believed" - YNH
Perhaps a conversation between Sadhguru and Yuval Noah Harari on humankind would be fantastic!
A well-branded fraud with a cult following and an actual thinker?
Please.
Sadguru and his following are an embarassment to a long illustrious line of Indian philosophers including Shankaracharya, Vivekananda, SreeNarayana Guru, etc.
No, Harari's a vegan and the 'modern day Osho' mocks people like that.
A wonderful summary of a great book. Thx for sharing.
Moral:Story is essential.
Emm, but why?
@@apyapy7358 to connect people
@@sumitshrestha6071 in order to achieve?
@@apyapy7358 might be but not necessarily
@@sumitshrestha6071 well, I guess, life could be a form of fulfilment of guesses just before our curiosity runs dry. Amazingly, pleasure seems to justified those fulfilment too.
Technology does not tell stories; that is its limitation; it is human hearts, minds, creative thinking, imagination and human spirit tells and lives our stories; these are dynamic and empowering.
thank you you used the phrase human spirit It is ourspirit that which evolves us from being animals.
It will be it's downfall
I loved Sapiens and Homo Deus so much that I bought them for my daughter too, then a year later after re-reading them, got all fired up about them again and stupidly bought her the same books again :)
No. Evolution is false. Harari is spreading a lie.
A really great book to read
I like how when we cram 100, 000 chimpanzees in wall Street we still get Chaos
One of the most brilliant video article I’ve come across in a long time.
The second half has a lot of Nietzsche (and thus spoke zarathustra, the overman) when man has the ability to compete with a “god-like ability, therefore crossing that threshold for the first time and altering his destiny as was when man first made and used a tool/weapon, separating himself from his natural born limitations. The second was when he learned how to harness fire, the rise of man’s own forces separate from nature’s. The third is the 21st century of crossing over to a tech reality, unleashing god-like abilities and powers (Nietzsche’s overman).
An excellent lecture!
Superb...thanks 😊
He never stops thinking people are stupid because they keep buying his books
Do you mean we are foolish for reading it? Don't want to assume too much based on what you wrote.
Love this book.
Even this is just another story to tell, even this story can have horrible consequences (with our technologies even more devastating). It's out to people to decide the outcome of the any story.
@chris m you are right in some way, however in the future there will be another story about this time, maybe you will be amazed, but even now politics/ideologies etc. benefits one person/group at the risk of horrible consequences, they make up a story for you that you need to hear in order to be happy. We worship those gods more fanatical then people from old times. They tell you what you need to be happy. Just changed the object of worshiping. Piece of paper? subscribers/likes? bigger house? expensive car? iphone? Name it. As I told, It's just another story which includes previous stories.
Man Versus Nature: The Road To Victory!
If everyone had to build underground and our yard is a top yard.heating cooling cost can become verry low and nature can come back.
The Earth is greener today than it has ever been in recorded history. Just saying...
One needs to read a lot more of Vedas to know their actual message, especially the Upanishads. They don't at all talk about paradise or the idea of god as described by Abrahamic culture. They are only concerned with human conditioning and what lies beyond this robotic living which is our true nature. Upanishad text is highly scientific in its approach towards the seeker. Therefore, these Vedas are still as useful as they were a thousand years ago. Like Harari says its is our ability to make and believe in the stories and Upanishads basically provide a way to go beyond faith and belief without denying the worldly reality as it is. One can read great german philosopher Arthur Schopanhaeur's work to understand it better. Even he has been highly misunderstood in the modern times.
cow cola has health benefits
You and many people (Hindus) think like this but not everyone. Others believe in other fictions.
Human beings: the most destructive and dangerous animals you will ever meet…
And also the most caring, kind, good willing good acting species on earth. So your eco-faschistic nonsense is not helping any animals nor plants to thrive.
Just got this book!
Thank you for a wonderful summary of our history and a probable future in the near future. This video explains a lot of questions we all have of how we got here and which direction we are probably headed.
Not good.
The first core of Yuval's book is that our superior Imagination is what makes us superior to the rest of animals (maybe there are others but that doesn't mean imagination is untrue, invalid or unimportant). The second core is that our superior habilty to cooperate (granted by our Imagination and its Imagined Realities) is what has made us be the most powerful living being in the world. Cooperation. NOT Competing like animals do in Nature. NOT Competing like we were taught when we were young. It's precisely competing what has doomed the rest of animals to be at our mercy (mercyless mercy more like it). The fact that maybe other things besides our Imagination have helped us into being more cooperative is another history for maybe another book.
Thanks Yuval for showing us the path to Progress. The path to Happiness: IMAGINATION and COOPERATION. That being said though I think his book is so full of wrong or pessimistic ideas (which most I must admit I also shared) that I felt the need to fight them to try to "boost the morale of the troop" (and my own too by the way) a little bit (nowadays it's not precisely bursting out of joy). I know it wasn't needed because thanks to the least common of all senses (the common sense) almost everybody already disagreed with Yuval in many of the things he said (in amazon lots individuals already decided to give only one star out of five to his book) but thanks for giving me the opportunity, the freedom to argue some points in what I think it has been a constructive way more than a destrucitve or disrespectful one so common this days. I promise this is the last one:
The american independence declaration has no sense if we translate it in objective biological terms.
I DO NOT AGREE. As Yuval himself says in his book if we tranlate it it becomes "All humans have evolved in a different way and have born with mutable traits among which there is LIFE and the pursuit of PLEASURE". Personally I find this statement very sensible, reasonable and realistic rather than senseless. Even if we are 99,99% biologically equals as Science proved sequencing our genome, we are effectively 0,01% different. We have mutable traits (in the past or in undeveloped countries women have bigger "backyards" and breasts than modern women living in developed countries because the last ones, thanks to hospitals, don't need to have such big attributes to give birth to their children, individuals living in countries with high sun exposure have darker skin and eyes than the ones living in countries with less sun light, etc.). If not everything almost everything we do it's to obtain pleasure in the present or in the future or in the next life or at least to avoid suffering which would decrease our current level of pleasure (if we end up obtaining pleasure or not it's another history). We are alife.
Following the wise, realistic Imagined Reality of Thomas Jefferson U.S.A. Americans (and other countries too) progressed much more than Hammurabi would have dreamt off because if we translate Hammurabi's Imagined Reality (code) into objective biological terms we get "a human eye it's the same as an entire human being" and that's nuts. To be fair with Hamurabi though the translation should be "a human noble's eye it's the same as an entire slave human being" which I (as follower of the Imagined Reality of the Human Rights) still think it's nuts. Sadly many people, even entire countries like India (not the only one though) are nuts and instead of following wise realistic Imagined Realites like the ones Gandhi or Thomas Jefferson imagined long ago, they trust nuts Imagined Realites like Hamurabi's code (Indian castes system for example). Curiously lots of americans (but not the only ones of course) can buy dozens of extremely cheap t-shirts made in India but few Indians can buy dozens of american made products (shirts or whatever). I hope some day Indians listen to Gandhi. Maybe that day americans (and others) will not be able to buy dozens of cheap t-shirts but breaking news ahead: no one needs dozens of t-shirts to live a decent life (but no one can live decently belonging to the untouchable caste).
Oh, and I almost forgot one more "little" thing that made Agriculture and outstanding smash if we compare it to Hunter-Gatherers. It forced people to planificate, to IMAGINE the FUTURE harvest, etc. Having in mind that Human Imagination and Imagined Realities have been the key to human success, a system, an Imagined Reality which enhances imagination like Agriculture, we could say that it was the mother of all Imagined Realities. It was the mother of progress. The mother of HAPPINESS.
Oh, and one last thing, even if U.S.A. Americans (and many others) followed great Imagined Realities like the one Thomas Jefferson imagined making them progress more than anyone, in the recent past have been following a very funny (though a little outdated for my taste) Imagined Reality called the Law of the Strongest while taking by force whatever they wished from whomever they wished. Curiously, nowadays, their own younger generations, their own beautiful babies are obediently following the same example thanks to their mirror neurons and no longer accept the results of a free electoral peaceful system called Democracy and just want to invade the Capitol by force to stablish their own new (ancient more like it) world order. Fitting. Fitting indeed. Knock, knock, THEY ARE HEEEREEE.....(progress and the happiness it brings I'm not not so sure).
Truth be told maybe all started in Western Europe after all. In October 2017 to be precise. Back then Europe made the Law of the Strongest become trendy once more showing to the entire World (lots of international journalists were there covering the event) that even if it was a a bit old, that Law was much more cool than wasting time in Democracy or useless Freedom (pff who wants those. highly overated them two anyways. I'm joking). Mmh, unwise, unwise lesson to be taught indeed. Since then, curiously, mirror neurons started to work once again and BANG!! If you have the brute force you have the right. By right of might, yes sir!! (faster and more resolutive than all the other Imagined Realites like dances, languages, religions, science, laws, democracies, boring, zzzz snoring. I'm joking once again). Equation's result: Capitol invaded, Ukraine invaded, south american countries like Peru rebelling violently and putting their presidents in jail, etc. Butterflies and tornados maybe? One thing is for sure though. The Universe and its equalizers equations will bring Justice. One way or the other. For all. Maybe there could be a way to teach a different lesson to our beautiful babies to make their mirror neurons start working in a different more democratic, peaceful, productive way. Who knows, who cares, not me (well, maybe a little actually).