It's incredible I can gain this incredible information from an Israeli historian from a talk in Norway about a book on humanity, all the way from India.
I wish I could upvote this infinite times. I admire his thinking very much. I hope more people read his book and come to appreciate what he is teaching.
After living more than half a century on earth, and after collecting a variety of wide knowledge and experiences, I got a sense of self-satisfaction but after reading "Sapiens" I realise how far I have to go. "Sapiens" is helping me to see myself in the mirror of the objective reality. Isn't that a breakthrough in history writing?! I do own you Yuval Harari for awakening me by your great masterpiece.
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As I entered into the book shop, my eyes interacted with "Sapiens" As I turned three pages , my mind went to 13.5 billion years ago on (birth of the Earth) , as I saw next paragraph about chemistry and biology and its natural link with us....I decided to buy "Sapiens" Now many sapiens will be reading this "Sapiens" on the Earth like me. A great contribution by Professor Yuyal Noah Harari.
Yuval is simply pointing out to everyone is. What devides human's and what unites human's both created by human's. First religion second money both created to surpass humanity. So when will we wake up and create a belief system and a monetary system which frees humanity because if we have created the the first two we can create the third one . All need to know is which one will benefit humanity
How can you not like this. Its about who you are. Well thats the best knowledge you can get and it wil help you understand yourself and others on different levels of consciousness. If you want.
Hi from tamil nadu india. This was a great experience to read his book n travelling with his thoughts. Thank u for uploading this video. Very nice to see n hear form such a legend.
Listening to this now during the covid crisis and Harari’s idea that it might have to take a crisis to change the predominant story about economic growth, a story which is leading to ecological destruction, now rings true. The world is now going through another economic crisis because of covid 19. The question is, will we emerge out of this with a better story on how to live sustainably?
One of the most inspiring perspective I have come across, both in the book and the talk, on social history of human species and the challenges we are facing as an evolving species. Thank you for sharing that.
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).
@@Alex-uy7pc in order to gossip, people needed to communicate with ease and large vocabulary for more variety of gossiping. Thats the starting point for development of a language. Birds and animals uses sounds to communicate , if they want to gossip , they need a structural language.
@@gangadharanm6124 "gossiping leads to origin of language" is the same as saying winged flight led to the creation of the wing. If you have the ability to gossip, you already have a language. It's a circular argument.
Thanks for the video, and thanks to Prof. Harari! I do not agree with many conjectures, conclusions, and reinterpretations of facts as presented in the lecture-but then again, you can learn a lot even from people you do not agree with.
Harari is an absolute beast. I can't overemphasise just how compelling this book is to modern humans. I wouldn't be overselling it to call it a masterpiece.
With a wealth of references and personal opinions, Harari boasts an encyclopedic knowledge. But, for example, when he writes about the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula, he focuses exclusively on Numancia, when Hispania was Romanized for centuries and on all four sides. Harari dedicates a chapter to empires and mentions only twice the Spanish Empire, which was, also for centuries, the largest.
Our ferocious fictional character is clearly the villain of the world .... that’s why art & culture is so very powerful. Our outcome is dependent upon our own story we write for ourselves.
Today is 5/1/20 I'm listening to Yuval's very brilliant analysis of humanity's history, at 1:05 minutes into this he speaks to the only likihood that some crisis or catastrophic occurance could possibly change the current Corportation generating story that having more things makes you happier and is the only way for economic growth. Well here we are now in the middle of this pandemic and we aren't buying all those products and our economy is likely to crash. Yuval please continue speaking as now more than in 2016 there is a window of hope, since our world wide consumerism is at a stand still and we can literally see the ecology starting to make a tiny recovery, we see blue skies over India and China etc. So though the governments don't want this, here is our chance, humanity could choose a brighter more humane ecological future if there were more brilliant philosophers such as yourself speaking out, perhaps consulting with AI to figure out a new ecologically based future story that humanity might believe in, which includes our interconnection with a sustainable biosphere. I can imagine such a "Think Tank" including any creative inventors, no matter their age to share ideas for how to shift from consumerism to sharing Gaia's resources in a sustainable way always keeping a check over AI and biological warfare. So that there can still be jobs in the future for those who don't have 21 century technological skills but are willing to offer their abilities to their communities . We adore you Yuval, please be safe and continue to share your impactful ideas to help us formulate a future that can keep our Earth sustainable and provide food, shelter, medical care and education for humanity without sacrificing our ecosystem.
What a mesmerising talk and what an amazing person ! Huge respect to Prof. Yuval Noah Harari. Never had even imagined how interconnected our world and our lives are. The institutions we have made are lives based upon are imaginary and world peace is lost because of it. After watching this video I feel that there’s a need of conscience upliftment for the society. Maybe spirituality in its true essence can help. Not in the form of the Vedas or the Bible or the Quran, but for truth.
when I hear astronomers talk about the vastness of the universe, I realise how small we are in it and i feel lonely, even scared for humanity as a group. When I hear people like this man speak about humanity I marvel as an individual at how far we all have come in a relatively short time; yet in some ways we have hardly moved from our earliest ancestors. I don’t agree with everything he said But, I do think there is a lot to think about in what he said.
Well.... I do like his job but he just wanted to give some of the new sience ideas to the 'stupit' men like you and me... I do recommed this book and the second one (im from israel)
NC Man ..He does not actually provide any unique perspectives in this book. He simply condenses data that one can find elaborated in science journals and anthropology departments. He starts his talk by privileging humans to some special place. When In reality we are still just animals. But animals that must learn to maintain ecological equilibrium or destroy all animality. These are not revolutionary ideas.
Sorry my freind! Your veiw s nice but its not true. like most of words that -for example - one man who s named " FREDRISH NICHE " used to say ! Nice speech; beutifull words ; but no dialoque(FILASOFIA). There are some people who lives in the world that the dialoctic s mate with them; but thayr borned into a country I must tell you: one countery with many bad thing specially for the thouath. No! I dont say: the governmant. I mean every people in that nasion. The ordenary people and the academic men or women!! All of them ; of course! Just imagine for a momant ! In subway or university or any street or yet eny home . Yes! If you live somewhere like that and at the same time wantto thinking! every people become your enemy! Your series old intire of time enemy : your freinds; familly; teachers; nabeours; men of acts and arts and bissiness and poletics; youngs and elders; your brothers!! Your sisters !! Oh my soul ! Your mother ; your mother ; your mother!! Do you believe that?! Your life means poorness, lonellyness suspectios and ... And then you ; to 10 years ago ; in every day for ;at least ; 9 ours - without yet one penny; days ad weeks and mouths and years intire of time ; youv made a theorry about " something that its no exsisting into some culture spaciolly the culture of your countary for a long time ; 2000 years" and then at the end of work only thing your able to see : everybody become your enemy! Thats true!
YOU CANNOT EQUATE THE RELIGION TO THE SCIENCE. THE SCIENCE DEALS WITH THE MATERIAL CHANGES WITHIN THE CONCEPTS OF THE TIME AND THE SPACE. THE RELIGION DEALS WITH THE CONCERTED CHANGES OF INDIVIDUAL SELF CONSCIOUSNESS TO THE SELFLESS BLISS OR TO GET RID OF THE PRESENT DELUSION OF THE MATERIAL & THE WAVES, BEYOND THE TIME & THE SPACE..
Want to know his thoughts on lost ancient civilisations like Baalbek and if dates turn out to be right , how this would effect his views on the time line for sapiens . Weary of historians but love his work
14:45 but paper money didn't just happen overnight. No one got the idea to pass around pieces of paper expecting someone believe it is valuable until it was used as proof that you have gold locked up somewhere in a vault. The original paper money was a receipt stating that you actually have wealth hidden somewhere around town and whoever had it in safekeeping will accept that receipt in exchange for that stored valuable in their vault. But it happened too long ago that almost no one knows why there's value in paper money and are caught up in the current story that it's worth something.
In terms of stories in the modern world, I agree completely that the 'endless growth is good' is still dominant and by definition massively pushed by the people in power and that we're all somewhat complicit with that as we almost all want a degree of consumer indulgence. However, there are other stories developing such as sustainability, interdependence, mental health and wellbeing, limits to material happiness, 'spiritual but not religious' etc. Part of this is the rehashing of old stories. This is something Yuval doesn't seem to acknowledge. So for instance Buddhism has managed to be reworked in the west into a modern spirituality of 'inter-being', and worked its way into the mainstream as 'mindfulness'. So there is some push back now, but I agree that it probably takes a series of crises to really change direction, and the new and rehashed stories to really gain traction.
I have that story brother. But I don’t have the money to visit Israel and tell it to Mr Harari. It’s like Mr Harari has diagnosed the disease and I have invented the medicine.
I find it VERY objective that a piece of paper allow me to buy food. The problem with his approach is that he equals physicality and reality ONLY. The layer which includes objectivity and subjectivity simoutaneously probably has no name for him.
A whole new class of "Useless People?" I would suggest that a Human Being has an inherent worth that has little to do with their material productivity. What we need to do is use our future technological prowess to remove the material challenges of existence and allow for the maximum flourishing of the human mind and creative potential. Grounding everything in the natural/material world with no recognition of inherent meaning or purpose to existence is a fatal error. I agree with the speaker's conclusion that our future success/survival will be determined by the future stories/"Myths" we live by. But, I would also suggest that there is timeless wisdom in many of the stories that he implies are no longer relevant or useful. There is still much to guide us in many of these "Old" stories if read in the right way. Nothing is new under the Sun.
Wonderful comment. Materialist extremism is the worst ideology (yes, it itself is an ideology in the guise of science) among all. It puts new products and enhance productivity as the sole source of human advancement. Maybe true, this is an 'advancement', but the advancement in the wrong direction. Because this scientific world is now face to face with the real possibility of total human destruction. What's 'the great' in it?
"I would suggest that a Human Being has an inherent worth that has little to do with their material productivity [...] Grounding everything in the natural/material world with no recognition of inherent meaning or purpose to existence is a fatal error." Yes, and no. Yes, it has worth, the same worth that an ant or a grain of sand has, plus a bit more because sometimes a few human beings have some imagination or creative ability (which the remainder lack). No, there is no purpose on chance, there is no particular meaning in being human; we are not special, and we have not been purposely designed, nor has any purposeful plan guided our existence. Natural selection randomly provided us with our peculiarities just because our lineages survived what of good and bad chance threw at them. Yes, maybe the new class will not be "Useless People," maybe productivity will have nothing to do with the defining criteria for the new class. But maybe it won't be flourishing of the human mind and creative potential, but something different. Who knows? Anyway, I do share some of your view and reject some other. "Nothing is new under the Sun." Well, no new material ingredients, but some things are immaterial. You mentioned creative potential yourself. Mathematics, artistic beauty, scientific knowledge, social nicety: they are immaterial yet they grow and amaze us. And every once in a while, something new surfaces and shocks or surprises us.
I see what you're trying to say, but your statement is incorrect. In the way a biologist would describe and determine "successfulness" of any living species, humans clearly ARE a successful one.
fair my nihilistic friend, but we haven't gone extinct and have concerned other life forms so objectively comparative to other life forms we are successful. It doesn't mean it cant end tho which I think you are more so getting at
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?
great thinker but I swear he enjoys saying Shimp-an-zee .. he uses this in 50% of his talks .. again dont get me wrong he is a very powerful speaker able to explain complex ideas.
Us humans are in dire need f a miracle!! This can only happen when we all unite & Groove as One together!!!We're all just a bunch of humans (groovists at that)!!
One of the brightest minds to come out in many years. And yet if some low-IQ rapper or athlete had been there, the audience would have been far greater.
It's a good book but I'm not sure the main thrust around 'stories' revolutionises much our understanding of the human condition. What emerges out from underneath can be more revealing. For example, the reason we're getting pushback against liberal concepts of human rights, etc., which we ought to be able to take for granted as an element of human progress, is because we haven't gone far enough in convincing more people with a strong enough story.
The future of live on earth does not rely on us. The era of mankind will (probably sooner than later) be over but live will continue to exist. Don’t listen to the Club of Rome. Just enjoy the party!
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.
words like insignificant unimportant or master are really relative. are bees insignificant when we can’t live without their help. are we really masters when we can’t predict the weather or work together as a species as to not destroy one another
It's incredible I can gain this incredible information from an Israeli historian from a talk in Norway about a book on humanity, all the way from India.
Oh cheers Babu, thank you for your useless concern.
@@ssingh1772 i was 17 when i wrote this lol
It's wonderful.
I'm honored that I am one of the few humans on earth who watch this and who appreciate the books and talks of prof. Yuval...
2016. Look how few people are in the audience. Take a look at one of his talks in 2020, you’ll be lucky to get a seat.
I wish more people had followed Dr. Harari’s lectures. He is, indeed, an outstanding speaker and thinker!!!!
I wish I could upvote this infinite times. I admire his thinking very much. I hope more people read his book and come to appreciate what he is teaching.
I'm not trolling honest; but I see you everywhere I go! ;--)
Call it what you want but most of his talk, comparing man and monkeys, is common sense. Most of us just don't use our time comparing monkeys to man.
I don't see why. He's also a very opinionated nihilist.
After living more than half a century on earth, and after collecting a variety of wide knowledge and experiences, I got a sense of self-satisfaction but after reading "Sapiens" I realise how far I have to go. "Sapiens" is helping me to see myself in the mirror of the objective reality. Isn't that a breakthrough in history writing?! I do own you Yuval Harari for awakening me by your great masterpiece.
can't get enough of these lectures
Bored of music, listen to lectures/talks like this, now I can be enlightened whilst I work out! Win/Win.
enlightenment has killed music for me
well modern music
You can do both
It fungus the most intelligent species on this planet
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As I entered into the book shop, my eyes interacted with "Sapiens" As I turned three pages , my mind went to 13.5 billion years ago on (birth of the Earth) , as I saw next paragraph about chemistry and biology and its natural link with us....I decided to buy "Sapiens" Now many sapiens will be reading this "Sapiens" on the Earth like me. A great contribution by Professor Yuyal Noah Harari.
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Yuval is simply pointing out to everyone is.
What devides human's and what unites human's both created by human's.
First religion second money both created to surpass humanity. So when will we wake up and create a belief system and a monetary system which frees humanity because if we have created the the first two we can create the third one . All need to know is which one will benefit humanity
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@@Gallant972310, possibly he wanted to say universe is 13.9 billion yrs old. Simply a mind-bogging truth!!
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Very few people had attended this lecture. He deserves greater audience.
That is why I shared it on FB.
Great book that explains history in a simple way. Beautifully described by a great historian. Everyone should this.
How can you not like this. Its about who you are. Well thats the best knowledge you can get and it wil help you understand yourself and others on different levels of consciousness. If you want.
Hi from tamil nadu india. This was a great experience to read his book n travelling with his thoughts. Thank u for uploading this video. Very nice to see n hear form such a legend.
Still thinking tamilnadu, earth divided by sapiens for organisation based on language and all the other things.
Getting more diversed more and more but going to get one soon😏
The combining of fields, of disciplines, is not only possible, it is essential!
Enjoyable and stimulating. Cheers for the upload.
Listening to this now during the covid crisis and Harari’s idea that it might have to take a crisis to change the predominant story about economic growth, a story which is leading to ecological destruction, now rings true. The world is now going through another economic crisis because of covid 19. The question is, will we emerge out of this with a better story on how to live sustainably?
One of the most inspiring perspective I have come across, both in the book and the talk, on social history of human species and the challenges we are facing as an evolving species. Thank you for sharing that.
Maybe you like Terence McKenna :-)
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).
Gossiping leads to the origin of languages. That was fascinating thing I read in the book.
Yes
Gossiping implies language exists already
@@Alex-uy7pc in order to gossip, people needed to communicate with ease and large vocabulary for more variety of gossiping. Thats the starting point for development of a language. Birds and animals uses sounds to communicate , if they want to gossip , they need a structural language.
@@gangadharanm6124 "gossiping leads to origin of language" is the same as saying winged flight led to the creation of the wing. If you have the ability to gossip, you already have a language. It's a circular argument.
@@Alex-uy7pc there was a place where language is just a whistle. People cannot communicate much with the sounds.
Thanks for the video, and thanks to Prof. Harari! I do not agree with many conjectures, conclusions, and reinterpretations of facts as presented in the lecture-but then again, you can learn a lot even from people you do not agree with.
Harari is an absolute beast. I can't overemphasise just how compelling this book is to modern humans. I wouldn't be overselling it to call it a masterpiece.
Yuval Noah Harari has wonderfully portrayed his views here
Harari is correct, once you differentiate objective reality from fiction the world become a very different place.
Harari is the red pill.
Great thinker, book and lecture! Harari - Genius!
With a wealth of references and personal opinions, Harari boasts an encyclopedic knowledge. But, for example, when he writes about the Romanization of the Iberian Peninsula, he focuses exclusively on Numancia, when Hispania was Romanized for centuries and on all four sides. Harari dedicates a chapter to empires and mentions only twice the Spanish Empire, which was, also for centuries, the largest.
Our ferocious fictional character is clearly the villain of the world .... that’s why art & culture is so very powerful. Our outcome is dependent upon our own story we write for ourselves.
what kind of circular argument rubbish is this?
If it is fictional character then your designation is also fictional. The real villain must also be real
Fantastic way of entirely different way of thinking and looking into the past and future. Thought provoking
Described about Sapience very deeply, really a knowledge booster
This was so very interesting! Thank you so much for sharing .
Today is 5/1/20 I'm listening to Yuval's very brilliant analysis of humanity's history, at 1:05 minutes into this he speaks to the only likihood that some crisis or catastrophic occurance could possibly change the current Corportation generating story that having more things makes you happier and is the only way for economic growth. Well here we are now in the middle of this pandemic and we aren't buying all those products and our economy is likely to crash. Yuval please continue speaking as now more than in 2016 there is a window of hope, since our world wide consumerism is at a stand still and we can literally see the ecology starting to make a tiny recovery, we see blue skies over India and China etc. So though the governments don't want this, here is our chance, humanity could choose a brighter more humane ecological future if there were more brilliant philosophers such as yourself speaking out, perhaps consulting with AI to figure out a new ecologically based future story that humanity might believe in, which includes our interconnection with a sustainable biosphere. I can imagine such a "Think Tank" including any creative inventors, no matter their age to share ideas for how to shift from consumerism to sharing Gaia's resources in a sustainable way always keeping a check over AI and biological warfare. So that there can still be jobs in the future for those who don't have 21 century technological skills but are willing to offer their abilities to their communities . We adore you Yuval, please be safe and continue to share your impactful ideas to help us formulate a future that can keep our Earth sustainable and provide food, shelter, medical care and education for humanity without sacrificing our ecosystem.
Yeah, we all know all of that.
I bought his book just today! ...(on croatian ) :)
Great lecture.
Absolutely fascinating!
Yuval Harari is very good guy, your book it"s very good, I recomend it.
Pollo al loo los p
absolutely amazing book. highly recommend
4/14/2020
Humans really don't have rights. Crazy to think about..but we need to keep that story. It's s great one.
What a mesmerising talk and what an amazing person ! Huge respect to Prof. Yuval Noah Harari. Never had even imagined how interconnected our world and our lives are. The institutions we have made are lives based upon are imaginary and world peace is lost because of it. After watching this video I feel that there’s a need of conscience upliftment for the society. Maybe spirituality in its true essence can help. Not in the form of the Vedas or the Bible or the Quran, but for truth.
when I hear astronomers talk about the vastness of the universe, I realise how small we are in it and i feel lonely, even scared for humanity as a group.
When I hear people like this man speak about humanity I marvel as an individual at how far we all have come in a relatively short time; yet in some ways we have hardly moved from our earliest ancestors. I don’t agree with everything he said But, I do think there is a lot to think about in what he said.
yup it takes 3 days 2 complete... its not short but so interesting
Prof Harari is the most brilliant thinker of our time.
I agree !
Well.... I do like his job but he just wanted to give some of the new sience ideas to the 'stupit' men like you and me...
I do recommed this book and the second one (im from israel)
NC Man ..He does not actually provide any unique perspectives in this book. He simply condenses data that one can find elaborated in science journals and anthropology departments. He starts his talk by privileging humans to some special place. When In reality we are still just animals. But animals that must learn to maintain ecological equilibrium or destroy all animality. These are not revolutionary ideas.
The fact that you speak in hyperbole like this proves that it's hard to even classify you as a "thinker"
Woah, jump to conclusions much? hahah ;)
I loved the book... From Bangladesh
Thank you very much Prof. Harari for your contribution, you are genius.
5:35 Except that now they have found ants that are not genetically related, cooperating. Attenborough recently did a thing on it. Fascinating!
Simon Sozzi I’d be curious for the link!
can anybody suggest some more intellectual lectures like this?
that q&a was dope
Fascinating!
great talk as usual, Yuval! :)
Oh! great. My standing ovation to prof.Harary
He is a great thinker just because the others lost the ability to think.
愚若 that is always the case
Yes, he, Gabor Mate and Darren McGarvey are my favourite people!
Think about it like a conversation, nothing as cohesive as this book exists. Bravo.
Sorry my freind! Your veiw s nice but its not true. like most of words that -for example - one man who s named " FREDRISH NICHE " used to say ! Nice speech; beutifull words ; but no dialoque(FILASOFIA).
There are some people who lives in the world that the dialoctic s mate with them; but thayr borned into a country I must tell you: one countery with many bad thing specially for the thouath. No! I dont say: the governmant. I mean every people in that nasion. The ordenary people and the academic men or women!! All of them ; of course! Just imagine for a momant ! In subway or university or any street or yet eny home . Yes! If you live somewhere like that and at the same time wantto thinking! every people become your enemy! Your series old intire of time enemy : your freinds; familly; teachers; nabeours; men of acts and arts and bissiness and poletics; youngs and elders; your brothers!! Your sisters !! Oh my soul ! Your mother ; your mother ; your mother!! Do you believe that?! Your life means poorness, lonellyness suspectios and ...
And then you ; to 10 years ago ; in every day for ;at least ; 9 ours - without yet one penny; days ad weeks and mouths and years intire of time ; youv made a theorry about " something that its no exsisting into some culture spaciolly the culture of your countary for a long time ; 2000 years" and then at the end of work only thing your able to see : everybody become your enemy! Thats true!
YOU CANNOT EQUATE THE RELIGION
TO THE SCIENCE.
THE SCIENCE DEALS
WITH THE MATERIAL CHANGES
WITHIN THE CONCEPTS
OF THE TIME AND THE SPACE.
THE RELIGION DEALS WITH THE CONCERTED CHANGES OF
INDIVIDUAL SELF CONSCIOUSNESS
TO THE SELFLESS BLISS OR TO
GET RID OF THE PRESENT
DELUSION OF THE MATERIAL
& THE WAVES,
BEYOND THE TIME
& THE SPACE..
what a story tell of the time..
Nice to see this - presented so nicely and in such a friendly way - from before this man's meteoric rise to fame.
It breaks your heart 💔😪
Want to know his thoughts on lost ancient civilisations like Baalbek and if dates turn out to be right , how this would effect his views on the time line for sapiens . Weary of historians but love his work
Brilliant!
14:45 but paper money didn't just happen overnight. No one got the idea to pass around pieces of paper expecting someone believe it is valuable until it was used as proof that you have gold locked up somewhere in a vault. The original paper money was a receipt stating that you actually have wealth hidden somewhere around town and whoever had it in safekeeping will accept that receipt in exchange for that stored valuable in their vault.
But it happened too long ago that almost no one knows why there's value in paper money and are caught up in the current story that it's worth something.
Amazing book
A cool thinker......!
He is a star now!
Is this video available in English?
Would be so nice to see his slides! After 2 minutes I know what Yuval looks like!
In terms of stories in the modern world, I agree completely that the 'endless growth is good' is still dominant and by definition massively pushed by the people in power and that we're all somewhat complicit with that as we almost all want a degree of consumer indulgence. However, there are other stories developing such as sustainability, interdependence, mental health and wellbeing, limits to material happiness, 'spiritual but not religious' etc. Part of this is the rehashing of old stories. This is something Yuval doesn't seem to acknowledge. So for instance Buddhism has managed to be reworked in the west into a modern spirituality of 'inter-being', and worked its way into the mainstream as 'mindfulness'. So there is some push back now, but I agree that it probably takes a series of crises to really change direction, and the new and rehashed stories to really gain traction.
Are you aware he's a pretty dedicated meditator? :)
No, wasn't aware, but not obvious from this
Como assistir com legendas?
Acredito que não tenha a opção legenda, porém aconselho procurar na internet
2021 is a story changing time.
Brilliant👍
Superb intellectual entertainment. But the moot question is who will be that Storyteller of the 21st Century? Man or Machine?
Nobody EVER mentions this fact, but MAN writes the source code. PERIOD. And yes, it will be buggy!
I have that story brother. But I don’t have the money to visit Israel and tell it to Mr Harari. It’s like Mr Harari has diagnosed the disease and I have invented the medicine.
Within 6 months, I’ll definitely meet Mr Harari.
Flexible cooperation in large numbers
I find it VERY objective that a piece of paper allow me to buy food.
The problem with his approach is that he equals physicality and reality ONLY.
The layer which includes objectivity and subjectivity simoutaneously probably has no name for him.
A whole new class of "Useless People?" I would suggest that a Human Being has an inherent worth that has little to do with their material productivity. What we need to do is use our future technological prowess to remove the material challenges of existence and allow for the maximum flourishing of the human mind and creative potential. Grounding everything in the natural/material world with no recognition of inherent meaning or purpose to existence is a fatal error. I agree with the speaker's conclusion that our future success/survival will be determined by the future stories/"Myths" we live by. But, I would also suggest that there is timeless wisdom in many of the stories that he implies are no longer relevant or useful. There is still much to guide us in many of these "Old" stories if read in the right way. Nothing is new under the Sun.
imma save what you said. you said sth i believe in a way that would require some effort for me to put into words.
Wonderful comment.
Materialist extremism is the worst ideology (yes, it itself is an ideology in the guise of science) among all. It puts new products and enhance productivity as the sole source of human advancement. Maybe true, this is an 'advancement', but the advancement in the wrong direction. Because this scientific world is now face to face with the real possibility of total human destruction. What's 'the great' in it?
badwith names Thankyou for your kind reply.
"I would suggest that a Human Being has an inherent worth that has little to do with their material productivity [...] Grounding everything in the natural/material world with no recognition of inherent meaning or purpose to existence is a fatal error."
Yes, and no. Yes, it has worth, the same worth that an ant or a grain of sand has, plus a bit more because sometimes a few human beings have some imagination or creative ability (which the remainder lack). No, there is no purpose on chance, there is no particular meaning in being human; we are not special, and we have not been purposely designed, nor has any purposeful plan guided our existence. Natural selection randomly provided us with our peculiarities just because our lineages survived what of good and bad chance threw at them. Yes, maybe the new class will not be "Useless People," maybe productivity will have nothing to do with the defining criteria for the new class. But maybe it won't be flourishing of the human mind and creative potential, but something different. Who knows? Anyway, I do share some of your view and reject some other.
"Nothing is new under the Sun."
Well, no new material ingredients, but some things are immaterial. You mentioned creative potential yourself. Mathematics, artistic beauty, scientific knowledge, social nicety: they are immaterial yet they grow and amaze us. And every once in a while, something new surfaces and shocks or surprises us.
Excellent
Yuval Harari
This guy is super fun.
calling human beings “successful” is a subjective value judgement. standing by for a whole load of subjectivity and interpretation...
I see what you're trying to say, but your statement is incorrect. In the way a biologist would describe and determine "successfulness" of any living species, humans clearly ARE a successful one.
fair my nihilistic friend, but we haven't gone extinct and have concerned other life forms so objectively comparative to other life forms we are successful. It doesn't mean it cant end tho which I think you are more so getting at
Isn't that the Admiral's uniform from the second season of Star Trek?
But he does seem to be belaboring the obvious ... Yes, the ability to cooperate is the secret of our success as a species. Next?
Listen to it on speed 1.25 you'll speed up the lecture.
y 1.25 is good for this one.
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?
Je recommande la lecture de ce pavé. Il nous aide a voir d'ou on vient, ce que l'on fait, et ou on va......
The real thinker of the time
I wondered if he has really went deep in to Vedas . Judgement without diving in to the subjects.
There are different forms of deep reading of ancient texts. Most of them don't result in believing in what the source material has to say.
still a myth
Interesting
great thinker but I swear he enjoys saying Shimp-an-zee .. he uses this in 50% of his talks .. again dont get me wrong he is a very powerful speaker able to explain complex ideas.
Optimistic, civilisation is dependent on grain storage, we've had it.
Us humans are in dire need f a miracle!! This can only happen when we all unite & Groove as One together!!!We're all just a bunch of humans (groovists at that)!!
One of the brightest minds to come out in many years. And yet if some low-IQ rapper or athlete had been there, the audience would have been far greater.
Immortality comes with great responsibility and when everyone wants it there is only one outcome. CHAOS.
Why?
It's a good book but I'm not sure the main thrust around 'stories' revolutionises much our understanding of the human condition. What emerges out from underneath can be more revealing. For example, the reason we're getting pushback against liberal concepts of human rights, etc., which we ought to be able to take for granted as an element of human progress, is because we haven't gone far enough in convincing more people with a strong enough story.
Susan Blackmore’s “The Meme Machine” is the best book on this subject.
Just broke down chapter one of Sapiens if you want to watch check it out!
👌👌👌
no subtitles?
Exactly, I need to share this... Please subtitles!
Matter stories and Stories matter
The future of live on earth does not rely on us. The era of mankind will (probably sooner than later) be over but live will continue to exist. Don’t listen to the Club of Rome. Just enjoy the party!
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.
Good
words like insignificant unimportant or master are really relative. are bees insignificant when we can’t live without their help. are we really masters when we can’t predict the weather or work together as a species as to not destroy one another
I feel like he's building up to a science experiment with that table
Trade is a social contract, not just a mere idea.
tim hassall a social contract is an idea
hes basically saying God doesnt exist but is sayign it from the perspective of God
😂😂😂dude stop
what a genius!!!!!!!!!!!