Historian & professor, Yuval Noah Harari, discusses psychedelics & the human conception of the meaning of life in a conversation with Dan Ariely. Credit to 92Y
Unless you take a holographic approach and believe that there's one grand story to unite them all. A story that none of us have done more than glimpse.
I love yuval Noah Harari, he practices vipassana meditation for 2 hours everyday. You can tell he has a monk like presence. Just reading his book 'Sapiens'. Awesome book man. So interesting to learn how our human race evolved in such a relatively short time span.
+Lua Veli S.N Goenka is my meditation teacher also, I completed 9 meditation retreats under his instruction. I also did long term dhamma service at dhamma dipa in United Kingdom. Great experience, one of the best in my life so far.
Dan Ariely is not just a host, he is his a renowned Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics an this is a conversation between experts more than a frontal interview.
Boredom is the first line defense- so true! (Outgrowing the interest in the existing, starts the necessity for the new and that's how the 'new and fresh' begins!)
my uncle was born quadraplegic and he took it day by day...did extremely well. i think when we look long term, we tend to have higher (and possibly less realistic) expectations of what we are supposed to achieve with regards to how our lives mean...
The interviewer is another genius and great guru Dan Ariely. His research and questions appear stupid, but that is because he thinks of the most simple and basics of human behaviour. Very specifically non philosophical. His talks snd books like Predictably Irrational are fascinating. His research on pain and even lying is interesting.
@@firewithfire848 Only by people who are annoyed when their guru gets called out for talking authoritatively, saying wrong things, about a subject which he is clearly ignorant of. It is the guest who was annoying for people who think truth is more important than celebrity.
The host ,Dan Ariely is a well known cognitive scientist and a stalwart in that discipline. It may seem annoying to us, but he's just trying to tease Yuval who is a historian and comes from a social sciences background. So, what we see here is a healthy debate between hard sciences vs social sciences albeit with a few annoyances which is what makes it interesting. My 2 cents :)
The host is a very smart guy, the fact that you don t understand something - then you have to read harari book, or you need to spend more time inside the society in order to understand your neighbours and what is actually really happening around you. The host is allowed to get the most out of his show - since it is HIS show. What I see here, the people who are watching this and are commenting on the host are bastards and really dumb dangerous and ignorant people, they are too cheap to buy the book, then you can read it, or too lazy to get out discover and try to understand their society and become a compassionate and responsible human being, I really worry about this kind of bastards harari are talking about. It is YOU guys, that he is also writing about/mentioned in the book. Thanks to him the host, you can watch this interview.
Our stories are so wrapped around small selves that we seem to miss the meaning of.the infinite. Then again who understands the meaning of infinity. Man still needs it’s little stories whether true or lie..
If he thinks that psychedelics are only about excitement, then he doesn't know about them whatsoever. He hasn't been confronted with the painful, terrified and darker sides of his own soul via something like Ayahuasca, that IS NOT bliss. It can be incredibly challenging and harrowing (but healing) experience. I agree with him on boredom though.
Self- righteous host almost ruins this interview-- I'm glad comments below from most of the viewers caught the same thing. Even more childish when the host continued to use self centered stories and weak humor about drug dealers to consistently appear as a wise man it was quite transparent.
10:22 I was hoping that guy marching in was handing the host a note to stop interrupting. Yuval still managed to communicate a great insight/idea. Dan Ariely is a great speaker, but I feel like he pushed it as a moderator here.
From the perspective of general relativity / physics, time always exists (I can go near the speed of light and move forward millions of years quickly) as though it is another dimension of space -- we just can't move forward very practically, and can't move backward (yet) at all. So everything we did 10,000 years ago or will do in 10,000 years exists already. Like a reel of film in a camera that exists as a whole, but we can only see one frame at a time. So all is never lost. Actions are forever. Just like on Facebook. :-)
agree with everyone else about the interviewer he is incredibly obnoxious and doesn't let yuval finish excellent points that he is making. whats the point of an interview if you can't listen to the responses?
I would so like to meet Harari some day... I would SO like to interact with him. So only recent me and a couple of my friends read Sapiens and... Idk, it just left us so... Depressed and nihilistic. It's like, none of the stories we used to be so passionate about really matter, the universe doesn't care, and there's no meaning to life. We're only evolved apes, and know no more right and wrong than they do. It's just all fictions. How on earth does Harari live with this knowledge! My friends and I discussed, and we all just find it so depressing. I've tried my best to ignore these ideas since, as they make me so nihilistic. Some day, I would like to talk to Harari, and know how HE deals with these ideas.
Wow you got something completely different from sapiens than I did. That book made me more hopeful of the future. It explains how humans are all the same emotionally. It explained how different religions and social structures came about. It shows that all our differences are the result of different environments and not fundamental differences. It gave me hope that once we are all more connected through the internet, that we may all find common ground and begin to build on our similarities. The book sapiens made me feel closer to every human on the planet. I dont know how you could have gotten the opposite take away. Perhaps you should re-read/listen. I listened to it a couple times.
I have never been religious however. And was nihilistic as you could get before reading his book. Perhaps the book makes atheists hopeful and religious people fearful?
What if each and every being is eternal. Through our ignorance we end up becoming unwitting victims of creation. Yuval Harari is a teacher of Vipassana meditation. A path that leads to mastery of eternity by first achieving mastery of our self through mastery of our mind.
I wish Chris Anderson were moderating... Dan Ariely really needs to get one step down on effrontery! Probably it us just the excitement or exhilaration on meeting a fellow writer: he should have discerned before the 'leaps'!
This is a very smart question about the drugs. I stopped here immediately, to write this down. You just do not understand the reason why people are taking drugs or the use of it , will be increasing in the next 3 decades.
Please change the title of this video to yuval discusses with ariely..too many yuval fans come here and dont understand the context of the snippet of this discussion
I run into people like this interviewer all the time while I try to explain something meaningful to a certain individual and it makes me sick how someone as respected and educated as Yuvl Noah still can’t get through this hurdle of ignorant people who think everything is a joke.
Do you know who the interviewer is? It’s not a random journalist. He is a professor of psychology, (with all my admiration for Harari) senior and more experienced than Harari.
I think Yuval is confusing psychedelics with opiates. Psychedelic substances are extremely useful for confronting unpleasant aspects of existence which are normally avoided.
rubbish host. at one point he tries to act like an expert and starts giving an interview . glad to see Harari shut him at one point after a series of interruptions.
That's not "the interviewer", that's Dan Effin Ariely -- whom you could've known if you had read anything else apart from Noah's two books in your life.
The meaning of life is not a constant concept, but changes with time and also from any living things possible subjective experience i.e. capasity to understand in general. Think it is not wrong to claim, that our job now is to preserve life and also try to nurture it to be valuable in future also, not for ex. just some algorithm without consciousness, but something to guard at least the memory of the present. Earth is a paradise. Even if humans are able to occupy other planets etc. other space, would be a huge mistake not to fix our problems here also. Clean water, air, healthy nature after 1000-years is a lot better than a nuclear meltdown & demolition of all complex life. Lets destroy less than what we are in a path to do.
The answer to the subject 'Drugs & the "Meaning" of life will be clear only if we analyze the entire field of the human mind. Here, I see that Mr. Yuval is coming closer to the real questions to be asked. He asks 'what are the Humans going to do, when the AI is going to take away all the jobs.' It seems that everybody will be entitled with a system of allowance called 'Universal Basic Income.' In this situation, it is natural that we will be bored, with nothing to be engaged in and we finally seek for pleasures that will end up with drugs. This is a dangerous situation! Now is the time to analyze the entire field of the human mind. When does a person feel to ask the question of what is the meaning of life. It is when he sees himself to be of no value to anyone. He then becomes lonely and to escape loneliness, he will go for drugs and things like that. Man, as a social being requires attention and love and when this is very much deficient in his experiences, naturally, he is travelling to a world of loneliness. This 'loneliness' is the driver of this question 'WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE.' Now, I ask Mr. Yuva to take the full spectrum of human body and mind and to speak on the ways to solve this epidemic called 'Loneliness.'
I find it ironic that Yuval Noah Harari is so disdainful of stories, yet uses them so effectively to communicate big ideas. I guess you have to fight fire with fire to an extent.
I didn't know Yuval was Israeli, I just hated him for being WEF's right hand but I've changed my mind about him, I don't hate him, I don't hate Israeli's or Palestinians. Most importantly is the fact Yuval is a very broad thinking mind and that's interesting, when listening to him closely explain his words it's hard to hang him on some clickbait clips. It's not fair to judge people out of context and what they're really talking about.
i agree with Harari about our meaning is meaningless - once we are thoroughly gone....and that is how it is depressing to think and live in the world of always trying to find meaning.... so both of you are essentially saying the same thing: stop thinking big!!
The person conducting the interview is impatient and unaware, which leads to a superficial discussion that revolves around himself rather than discourse rich in content and sharing. Super disappointing. How do people like this get in these positions?!
The best mind exploring and pleasure comes from being sober and in absolute control of your senses People who want excitement end up dead young,stupid and alone
I disagree with a couple of things he says in the first half. He seems to think that people get 'addicted' to a euphoric feeling. Although I understand his passion for being able to shut off sometimes, I don't find it strange that mdma makes people long for happiness afterwards, if that comes in the form of excitement. I don't think that's a bad thing. "We need to talk about your drug dealer" is pretty valid. Some drugs actually give you insights into what happiness is. Not so much a hunger for a fake hapiness.
But he's right in the sense that if people actually want to get to know themselves on a deeper level, escaping into the psychoactive effects of a substance isnt quite the most effective way to achieve that. They can certainly serve important functions (for example ketamine is being celebrated as a new wonderdrug for treating depression) but for the purpose of exploring your own psyche and consciousness, you are definitely better off doing it the hard way (for a more genuine experience). People can hallucinate like crazy just from meditation, there is alot we don't know about ourselves..
But people feel euphoric on the weekend of their tripping and then when monday comes, they are on a downer and depressed which leads to them wanting more drugs to feel happy and sooner or later they need drugs to live.
The difference between a medicine and poison is dosage. The most dangerous thing about addictive drugs is that you convince yourself that you are choosing to use it again, and again and again. Again and again and again you believe that you are not addicted and that you are in control of your usage. It's not until you reached the stage where, you are clearly experiencing the adverse side affects of chemical imbalances and your life is not where you originally wanted it to be; this is when you notice you might be addicted, and yet still convince yourself that you can control it.
You came to listen to the guest pontificate about something he is ignorant of? I'd rather see an interviewer push back on the bullshit, but I guess that's because I'm not a sycophant.
Its ariely and he is brilliant and funny you dont see it because you just dont know his character yet and are taking this short snippet out of context..it boggles my mind why all you jump to conclusions not even seeing the whole fucking discussion. There is a reason why he is the host. He is an expert on something you are not and they are having a multidisciplinary discussion
That’s the first time I’ve disagreed with one of his interviews, or rather particularly his statement on people becoming addicted to psychedelics - there is a negative correlation between psychedelic use and addiction or bad mental health.
Ive heard his views on psychedelics with Sam Harris and despite his achievement with Sapiens, he knows next to nothing about psychedelics and the neuroscience about it. He always gets stuck on this idea of a "fantasy world" hang up. It's pretty disappointing. He talks about people "wanting more and more.." like the topic is cocaine or heroin. The host was right to point out his lack of experience. Harari is into vipasanna and doesn't realize how basic that is after psychedelic experiences. You'd think such an historian so interested in the big picture would have some knowledge and curiosity about cultural anthropology and the role of psychedelics throughout human history. Incidentally, i'm also not satisfied with his conclusion regarding human purpose in Homo Deus. He has provoked good conversation and presented worthwhile thoughts, but he's missing too much knowledge and insight to speculate about the future with any more accuracy or revelation than many of us already have
Few things in this world are more annoying that morons who take drugs and think they gained some king of "higher insight" or "understanding". It really takes an idiot to glorify cheap meaningless hallucinations to such an extent.
Doesn't it look like Something that Buddha said once. Afterall we all are running for to meet our craving, as we humans we are insatiable wanting machines so as he said we will be under Trap of "Craving"
clearly psychedelics experiment from a more scientific and serious manner is not part of your field of expertise. Terence Makenna will have a lot more to say.and add to it. On top of it psychedelics are not addictive. Check the new experiments at NYU, John Hopkins Hospital etc
"If you want to understand the mind, start with boredom." That is profound.
not really
You are being sarcastic, right? 😅
Bring Yuval to the Joe Rogan Experience!
yes!
Yes
the jew rogan experience
Please
Yes
''When you think big most stories collapse...''
Unless you take a holographic approach and believe that there's one grand story to unite them all. A story that none of us have done more than glimpse.
I love yuval Noah Harari, he practices vipassana meditation for 2 hours everyday. You can tell he has a monk like presence. Just reading his book 'Sapiens'. Awesome book man. So interesting to learn how our human race evolved in such a relatively short time span.
Hi Jordan, you are absolutely right. Do you know by any chance a good book or a guided meditation podcast on Vipassana meditation? Thanks:-)
+Lua Veli S.N Goenka is my meditation teacher also, I completed 9 meditation retreats under his instruction. I also did long term dhamma service at dhamma dipa in United Kingdom. Great experience, one of the best in my life so far.
How interesting! Thanks a lot for sharing. I will definitely read more from him and practise more. All the best:-)
+Lua Veli Sending you love and light from Cornwall, UK x
I would love to try it. How do you find time though?i work so much and stress so much the 21st centuary is tough.
Dan Ariely is not just a host, he is his a renowned Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics an this is a conversation between experts more than a frontal interview.
He should only teach and stop being a host.
Lol
What a shame!
Yuval Harari and Jordan Peterson conversation would be interesting to watch. Very different perspectives on stories, myth, and reality.
Bigtime. I would love that.
I have never heard Yuval answering once without a perfect argument!
I don't know why, but half of the appreciation I had for Dan Arieli was gone after watching this discussion.
It seemed more important for him to make witty remarks than to advance the discussion.
and now you know it better
Quite right. Think big, there is no reason to be depressed.
I just discovered this man and I'm entranced, always inspirational to be led down an intellectual path you've never been down before thanks Yuval
I love this man (Harari).
How can you not?
Boredom is the first line defense- so true! (Outgrowing the interest in the existing, starts the necessity for the new and that's how the 'new and fresh' begins!)
Yuval Harari..The man who helped me with my " awakening"
my uncle was born quadraplegic and he took it day by day...did extremely well. i think when we look long term, we tend to have higher (and possibly less realistic) expectations of what we are supposed to achieve with regards to how our lives mean...
The interviewer is another genius and great guru Dan Ariely. His research and questions appear stupid, but that is because he thinks of the most simple and basics of human behaviour. Very specifically non philosophical. His talks snd books like Predictably Irrational are fascinating. His research on pain and even lying is interesting.
Love how in the comments Dan Ariely is dismissed just as an annoying host...: DDD
Lusine Margaryan Concerning this interview, he was.
@@firewithfire848 Only by people who are annoyed when their guru gets called out for talking authoritatively, saying wrong things, about a subject which he is clearly ignorant of. It is the guest who was annoying for people who think truth is more important than celebrity.
Wow. Listen the whole way through.
Love that last sentence.
I just love the last bit he said! Made me smile and agree. Why do people need to believe that there's a god end of story no more questions?
Congrats Harari! Such good answers to such stupid questions...
MDMA for all is like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
7:44 the meaning of life in forms of stories and why they don't hold up when thinking in a big perspective
"It's just the human expectation to receive an answer in terms of a story, this is the problem" I have nothing more to add :))
Let him complete his sentence.. Host is one Ahole!
Mukuthan Srinivasan you're right, the host is self- righteous.
The host ,Dan Ariely is a well known cognitive scientist and a stalwart in that discipline. It may seem annoying to us, but he's just trying to tease Yuval who is a historian and comes from a social sciences background. So, what we see here is a healthy debate between hard sciences vs social sciences albeit with a few annoyances which is what makes it interesting. My 2 cents :)
Dan ARieli is a social psychologist...
The host is a very smart guy, the fact that you don t understand something - then you have to read harari book, or you need to spend more time inside the society in order to understand your neighbours and what is actually really happening around you. The host is allowed to get the most out of his show - since it is HIS show.
What I see here, the people who are watching this and are commenting on the host are bastards and really dumb dangerous and ignorant people, they are too
cheap to buy the book, then you can read it, or too lazy to get out discover and
try to understand their society and become a compassionate and responsible human being, I really worry about this kind of bastards harari are talking about. It is YOU guys, that he is also writing about/mentioned in the book. Thanks to him the host, you can watch this interview.
If you want to think big and stay until the 'end': matter matters and yours will not go away.
Our stories are so wrapped around small selves that we seem to miss the meaning of.the infinite. Then again who understands the meaning of infinity. Man still needs it’s little stories whether true or lie..
Two of my favourite thinkers
If he thinks that psychedelics are only about excitement, then he doesn't know about them whatsoever. He hasn't been confronted with the painful, terrified and darker sides of his own soul via something like Ayahuasca, that IS NOT bliss. It can be incredibly challenging and harrowing (but healing) experience. I agree with him on boredom though.
Psychedelics are quick fix .. but for permanent solution vipasana meditation are the way forward ..
This guy is simply amazing ..
Self- righteous host almost ruins this interview-- I'm glad comments below from most of the viewers caught the same thing. Even more childish when the host continued to use self centered stories and weak humor about drug dealers to consistently appear as a wise man it was quite transparent.
Man ur jokes aren’t even funny plz focus on interviewing this genius !!
Fun talk. Two brilliant minds
please, upload the whole video if possible
Ihar Anfimau You can find the full video here: th-cam.com/video/5BqD5klZsQE/w-d-xo.html
Michael Nketsiah thanks a million
When you are alone and bored, you must be in a bad company.
Haha cool that
namaskar😊
I ENJOYED THIS INTERVIEW VERY MUCH. REFRESHING.
I love Dan Arieli ... smart and hilarious ;)
Two excellent people.
Great and Fun way to see things..
Awful interviewer
10:22 I was hoping that guy marching in was handing the host a note to stop interrupting.
Yuval still managed to communicate a great insight/idea. Dan Ariely is a great speaker, but I feel like he pushed it as a moderator here.
From the perspective of general relativity / physics, time always exists (I can go near the speed of light and move forward millions of years quickly) as though it is another dimension of space -- we just can't move forward very practically, and can't move backward (yet) at all. So everything we did 10,000 years ago or will do in 10,000 years exists already. Like a reel of film in a camera that exists as a whole, but we can only see one frame at a time. So all is never lost. Actions are forever. Just like on Facebook. :-)
agree with everyone else about the interviewer he is incredibly obnoxious and doesn't let yuval finish excellent points that he is making. whats the point of an interview if you can't listen to the responses?
GREAT ANSWER!
5:09 Oh now I see why you're so UP for any 'drugs' 😂 😂 😂🙏
If we need psychedelics to create empathy, that would be an artificial way of doing it right?
I would so like to meet Harari some day... I would SO like to interact with him.
So only recent me and a couple of my friends read Sapiens and... Idk, it just left us so... Depressed and nihilistic. It's like, none of the stories we used to be so passionate about really matter, the universe doesn't care, and there's no meaning to life. We're only evolved apes, and know no more right and wrong than they do. It's just all fictions.
How on earth does Harari live with this knowledge! My friends and I discussed, and we all just find it so depressing. I've tried my best to ignore these ideas since, as they make me so nihilistic. Some day, I would like to talk to Harari, and know how HE deals with these ideas.
Wow you got something completely different from sapiens than I did.
That book made me more hopeful of the future. It explains how humans are all the same emotionally. It explained how different religions and social structures came about. It shows that all our differences are the result of different environments and not fundamental differences. It gave me hope that once we are all more connected through the internet, that we may all find common ground and begin to build on our similarities. The book sapiens made me feel closer to every human on the planet. I dont know how you could have gotten the opposite take away. Perhaps you should re-read/listen. I listened to it a couple times.
I have never been religious however. And was nihilistic as you could get before reading his book. Perhaps the book makes atheists hopeful and religious people fearful?
Dan clearly was not his usual self . He was letting his opinions interfere with his rationale
are the opinions not connected tot the rationale?
What if each and every being is eternal.
Through our ignorance we end up becoming unwitting victims of creation.
Yuval Harari is a teacher of Vipassana meditation. A path that leads to mastery of eternity by first achieving mastery of our self through mastery of our mind.
geez, i feel like that was cut at the wrong place or something
The best gift for humanity would be DMT
Read his book Sapiens
I wish Chris Anderson were moderating... Dan Ariely really needs to get one step down on effrontery! Probably it us just the excitement or exhilaration on meeting a fellow writer: he should have discerned before the 'leaps'!
This is a very smart question about the drugs. I stopped here immediately, to write this down. You just do not understand the reason why people are taking drugs or the use of it , will be increasing in the next 3 decades.
Please change the title of this video to yuval discusses with ariely..too many yuval fans come here and dont understand the context of the snippet of this discussion
I run into people like this interviewer all the time while I try to explain something meaningful to a certain individual and it makes me sick how someone as respected and educated as Yuvl Noah still can’t get through this hurdle of ignorant people who think everything is a joke.
Do you know who the interviewer is? It’s not a random journalist. He is a professor of psychology, (with all my admiration for Harari) senior and more experienced than Harari.
I think Yuval is confusing psychedelics with opiates. Psychedelic substances are extremely useful for confronting unpleasant aspects of existence which are normally avoided.
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What last one Word is? In the black tshirt
I know he pushed the dealer story a little much, by I think the host was actually pretty good, and I did find him quite funny
rubbish host. at one point he tries to act like an expert and starts giving an interview . glad to see Harari shut him at one point after a series of interruptions.
He is a fucking expert. Hes not a host. Youre the one whos conclusions are rubbish
Usman Ahmad Dan is the expert
I have to decide who is smarter!?!? Harari or Ariely! Dan is so much funny
The interviewer is a complete embarrassment. He should be interviewing Miley Cyrus not Yuval.
LB he didn’t do the greatest now but he’s actually amazing, check out his book predictably irrational and his ted talk. I love Dan Arielly
He holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, I think he knows what he's doing.
@Omar Q LOL yes, hi I'm me from the future and I disagree with my previous comment.
a clean glass of water. I would give that to everyone in the world
That's not "the interviewer", that's Dan Effin Ariely -- whom you could've known if you had read anything else apart from Noah's two books in your life.
But still, even if not framed within a story with clear roles, what then is the meaning of life?
Each one of us decides the meaning of our own life
he had to skip 10298 leg days to write those two books.
The meaning of life is not a constant concept, but changes with time and also from any living things possible subjective experience i.e. capasity to understand in general. Think it is not wrong to claim, that our job now is to preserve life and also try to nurture it to be valuable in future also, not for ex. just some algorithm without consciousness, but something to guard at least the memory of the present. Earth is a paradise. Even if humans are able to occupy other planets etc. other space, would be a huge mistake not to fix our problems here also. Clean water, air, healthy nature after 1000-years is a lot better than a nuclear meltdown & demolition of all complex life. Lets destroy less than what we are in a path to do.
Drugs work. You need discipline but our intellect is helpless while drugs work.
So easy to make american audience laugh
It looks like, this interview is meant to discredit a scholar/thinker who I believe is potentially one of the greatest thinkers of This century!
Wow
The answer to the subject 'Drugs & the "Meaning" of life will be clear only if we analyze the entire field of the human mind. Here, I see that Mr. Yuval is coming closer to the real questions to be asked. He asks 'what are the Humans going to do, when the AI is going to take away all the jobs.' It seems that everybody will be entitled with a system of allowance called 'Universal Basic Income.' In this situation, it is natural that we will be bored, with nothing to be engaged in and we finally seek for pleasures that will end up with drugs. This is a dangerous situation! Now is the time to analyze the entire field of the human mind. When does a person feel to ask the question of what is the meaning of life. It is when he sees himself to be of no value to anyone. He then becomes lonely and to escape loneliness, he will go for drugs and things like that. Man, as a social being requires attention and love and when this is very much deficient in his experiences, naturally, he is travelling to a world of loneliness. This 'loneliness' is the driver of this question 'WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE.' Now, I ask Mr. Yuva to take the full spectrum of human body and mind and to speak on the ways to solve this epidemic called 'Loneliness.'
the interviewer is funny asf
wow
My God, is this truly happening on a podium ???
I find it ironic that Yuval Noah Harari is so disdainful of stories, yet uses them so effectively to communicate big ideas. I guess you have to fight fire with fire to an extent.
I didn't know Yuval was Israeli, I just hated him for being WEF's right hand but I've changed my mind about him, I don't hate him, I don't hate Israeli's or Palestinians. Most importantly is the fact Yuval is a very broad thinking mind and that's interesting, when listening to him closely explain his words it's hard to hang him on some clickbait clips. It's not fair to judge people out of context and what they're really talking about.
At no time is sex discussed as a pleasant activity capable of connecting humans. They only talk about drugs
A great mind like Harari should not waste his time being interviewed by these people who neither want to listen nor shut up
the host is good ,the guest is better.
Why is Yuval talking with this man?
"Netflix, video games and psychedelics" I mean we're getting there, look at the last Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch...
I was thinking pretty much about Cloud Streaming, which is basically “the Netflix of video games”. The future of entertainment
I came to the comment section to see if I was the only one who thought the interviewer was a dick. Nope, not at all. I’m one of many.
i agree with Harari about our meaning is meaningless - once we are thoroughly gone....and that is how it is depressing to think and live in the world of always trying to find meaning.... so both of you are essentially saying the same thing: stop thinking big!!
The person conducting the interview is impatient and unaware, which leads to a superficial discussion that revolves around himself rather than discourse rich in content and sharing. Super disappointing. How do people like this get in these positions?!
The best mind exploring and pleasure comes from being sober and in absolute control of your senses
People who want excitement end up dead young,stupid and alone
I disagree with a couple of things he says in the first half. He seems to think that people get 'addicted' to a euphoric feeling. Although I understand his passion for being able to shut off sometimes, I don't find it strange that mdma makes people long for happiness afterwards, if that comes in the form of excitement. I don't think that's a bad thing.
"We need to talk about your drug dealer" is pretty valid. Some drugs actually give you insights into what happiness is. Not so much a hunger for a fake hapiness.
But he's right in the sense that if people actually want to get to know themselves on a deeper level, escaping into the psychoactive effects of a substance isnt quite the most effective way to achieve that. They can certainly serve important functions (for example ketamine is being celebrated as a new wonderdrug for treating depression) but for the purpose of exploring your own psyche and consciousness, you are definitely better off doing it the hard way (for a more genuine experience). People can hallucinate like crazy just from meditation, there is alot we don't know about ourselves..
But people feel euphoric on the weekend of their tripping and then when monday comes, they are on a downer and depressed which leads to them wanting more drugs to feel happy and sooner or later they need drugs to live.
I feel like he's right if he's talking about drug addiction and resistance. Like weed is hard af to quit bc you get bored and wanna get high
The difference between a medicine and poison is dosage. The most dangerous thing about addictive drugs is that you convince yourself that you are choosing to use it again, and again and again. Again and again and again you believe that you are not addicted and that you are in control of your usage. It's not until you reached the stage where, you are clearly experiencing the adverse side affects of chemical imbalances and your life is not where you originally wanted it to be; this is when you notice you might be addicted, and yet still convince yourself that you can control it.
What kind of drugs those are ???I want some i have no happiness in my life no romantic relationship
annoying host. he thinks he's funny/clever and takes up time from the guest. i came here to listen to the guest, not the host.
You came to listen to the guest pontificate about something he is ignorant of? I'd rather see an interviewer push back on the bullshit, but I guess that's because I'm not a sycophant.
Its ariely and he is brilliant and funny you dont see it because you just dont know his character yet and are taking this short snippet out of context..it boggles my mind why all you jump to conclusions not even seeing the whole fucking discussion.
There is a reason why he is the host. He is an expert on something you are not and they are having a multidisciplinary discussion
Very very
I don't care who he is - he is very annoying!
That is a mistake many hosts make and it should be obvious to them were they to watch other hosts doing it.
That’s the first time I’ve disagreed with one of his interviews, or rather particularly his statement on people becoming addicted to psychedelics - there is a negative correlation between psychedelic use and addiction or bad mental health.
I had assumed he hasn't really gotten into psychedelics, because once he does - that's all he's going to talk about.
Ive heard his views on psychedelics with Sam Harris and despite his achievement with Sapiens, he knows next to nothing about psychedelics and the neuroscience about it. He always gets stuck on this idea of a "fantasy world" hang up. It's pretty disappointing. He talks about people "wanting more and more.." like the topic is cocaine or heroin. The host was right to point out his lack of experience. Harari is into vipasanna and doesn't realize how basic that is after psychedelic experiences. You'd think such an historian so interested in the big picture would have some knowledge and curiosity about cultural anthropology and the role of psychedelics throughout human history. Incidentally, i'm also not satisfied with his conclusion regarding human purpose in Homo Deus. He has provoked good conversation and presented worthwhile thoughts, but he's missing too much knowledge and insight to speculate about the future with any more accuracy or revelation than many of us already have
Glad to read your comment. It was a bit disappointing to see most comments here only complaining about "annoying host".
Exactly. He should really review the literature and step into the experience with middle-age wisdom. This is cringeworthy and obtuse.
Few things in this world are more annoying that morons who take drugs and think they gained some king of "higher insight" or "understanding". It really takes an idiot to glorify cheap meaningless hallucinations to such an extent.
glad im not the only one who thinks like that, thanks
@@roybatty2269 poor soul
Doesn't it look like Something that Buddha said once. Afterall we all are running for to meet our craving, as we humans we are insatiable wanting machines so as he said we will be under Trap of "Craving"
Good interviewer.
We're always told we'll have more free time, it never happens. Capitalism doesn't allow it.
clearly psychedelics experiment from a more scientific and serious manner is not part of your field of expertise. Terence Makenna will have a lot more to say.and add to it. On top of it psychedelics are not addictive. Check the new experiments at NYU, John Hopkins Hospital etc
It's only dangerous if you have no discipline and don't exercise
Dan Ariely is very quick-witted
The host should maybe do less drugs, and learn to listen the person he’s interviewing and not make it so much about himself.
wrong answer, apparently because he never took any psychedelic drug before ... that drug is not like cigarette, it is not addictive!
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