Why humans run the world | Yuval Noah Harari | TED
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2015
- Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. But now, few would disagree that humans dominate planet Earth; we've spread to every continent, and our actions determine the fate of other animals (and possibly Earth itself). How did we get from there to here? Historian Yuval Noah Harari suggests a surprising reason for the rise of humanity.
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"Take a human being, cut him open, look inside, and you will find no human rights there."
Well this went pretty dark pretty fast
Rob ʺEuphoricAgnosticʺ McDoritos
The truth is often "dark".
The irony that doing so itself would be a human rights violation.
There are no human rights. that's the point.
Rob ʺEuphoricAgnosticʺ McDoritos
self fulfilling prophecy^^
Cut open a random man and yes, human rights are not a part of that act in any way ! :)
How is a fact 'dark' ?
this talk is basically a summary of his book.
Sapiens is a mindblown book.
Yep. He used similar example of Osama Bin Laden believing in US dollars in his book too!
@Vitaliy Hrynyk in Vietnam, my textbooks aren't written in a way as interesting and humourous as his.
Vitaliy Hrynyk where are you from then? Just curious. It’s must be an interesting one
@Vitaliy Hrynyk which country u Live in ?
Got chills when he said , New Delhi 😮😮 as I am sitting and watching him over the Internet in new delhi
1. Communication
2. Collaboration at Scale
3. Stories
4. Belief Systems
5. Great Story Systems
6. Dual Reality
-Johnny Depp PERSECUTES Amber Heard’s fans come and see!
7. Tiktok
@@gustavoc1072 not wrong
@@gustavoc1072that’s the end of humanity
Communism is what these people want
Sapiens: A brief History of Human Kind, the best book i have read....
I completely agree with you! This book is fantastic!
Answered a lot questions I had, indeed, especially about empires and capitalism.
Katwere James Holo Deus is even better
Mesfin I don't know about him but it may be true in my case. I think that this is the best book I am ever going to read. I found the book educational but also overly entertaining that it has raised some doubts in me. Can you suggest some other good books.
Mark Marquez very predictable low-level hater-for-life comment, I imagine it sucks to be you
I like and am glad that he says "human and other animals" instead of "human and animals"
Aristotle said the same, so why not? The real questions are how explain this thing called imagination? How explain the objective objects? Or are we to conclude that even these are inventions? Open a brain and one sees “meat”, just as we open a hard drive and see” stuff”. what he says is tautology.
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Kudos to the interviewer at the end .
His first question was revealing.
I have always asked these questions since primary school
“There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion” ~ Daniel Dennett
Why shouldn't i think what you say is illusion too?
Well, it is terrifying, that reality is fake according to science is partly true.
Very simple and straightforward
There are those who say that the world is an illusion.
@@yachanakhatker706 how can you prove the reality of reality?
HIs "Sapiens" book brought me back to life from depression as it answered so many "Why" and "what for" questions and put all the things straight and clear. This has to be a mandatory history book to read in school, not all the crap that confuses people.
💯💯💯💯
No, his book is nothing but nihilistic nonsense. His book ignores and downplays the very principles of what makes humanity so dominant. While I agree with him on the fiction of religious scripture, I do not agree with him that there is no higher purpose or that objective reality cannot be shaped by our own ideas.
I think there are plenty of great non-religious books out there we can teach to students that do not have this same type of toxic nihilism that so many post-modernists spew today.
@@jaredschmidt8013 You agree with nihilistic nonsense or you are just not very good at using words correctly?
@@jaredschmidt8013 Believing in your religion, no matter how strong, won't make it true, it's like the other illusions he talked about. Believing in the concept of country will never make it a reality, it will always stay a fiction... Exactly like religions 🙂
1. Read the Almanack of Naval Ravikant 2. Listen to Andrew Tate about depression
This ted talk is literally his book in 17 minutes.
Those who focus on life being only tangible and material are ignoring things like love, art, honor and sacrifice - the things that bring meaning to one's life. The scariest part of the talk was the way he yalked about the end game. So many people he believes we need to dispose of!
@@husseincivil8771 Tell me a story
Rather than "many people he believes we need to dispose of", when I read his books he conveys that some people will just become irrelevant, and will fight for whatever little natural resources will be left, while an elite of genetic programmed super-beings will rule the game aided by AI, algorithms, and robotics
"You give me a worthless piece of paper, and you expect me to give you a banana? No way! What do you think I am, a human?"
God, I love this quote XD So genius, yet so simple.
Killkor a uman*
Money is not about paper, but about trust
Axel Philippson Money is idea about social egreement.
brotherQ, that is related to trust.
It is paper bond guaranteed by govt.if you start refuse to accept then system will collapse.
His book, Sapiens, literally cured my depression.
Inayah Cee Literally "literally"! 😀
@@deepermind4884 hahaha, good one!
why?
Which book
Which one?
If you ask me: Nobody is useless, rich became rich because someone from his/her family belonged to useless class and worked hard for it. I think what we need to do is not to create division but a world which is more fairer, just and loving for one another. I don't need money, I need life. Every human born in this world should deserve to live till the end of his life. Everyone deserves a good life. Please.
You are loved.
I quote him literally: "What do we do with all these useless people?"
That man is pure evil.
Seriously? That's not at all what he means. He's not speaking as himself, there - he's speaking from the POV of society as a whole, at that point.
Again, seriously?
@@augustuslxiii You should listen
@@augustuslxiii I disagree, the statement puts himself outside the group of useless people and inside the 'we' group. If he was speaking from the POV of society as a whole he could say: "What will we do with ourselves when we have nothing to do?"... or something like that.
He isn't evil, just not particularly bright. He has basically without realizing implied the system has failed many people. Because at the end of the day, who are the architects of society? I'm just surprised he's getting endorsements for pushing messages that insinuate failure of the ruling class.
@@amy6149because he’s the one that was mentioned in the Bible.
"If they took anyone of you, and placed you alone with a chimpanzee on an island, the chimpanzee would do better"
Bear Grylls: Hold my piss...
difficult to hold it when he has already drunk it
🤣😉🥰 love Bear Grylls! Good point 🤣😆
The chimp is Bear Grylls's first dinner. Yuval's fanboys on the other hand would be the chimp's dinner. That makes him 70% right.
Which demonstrates he has no idea about etology. In that situation, the chimpanzee would surely die, probably not too much after the initial situation. The human, instead, would probably survive more time and, depending on which human it was, he might even survive successfully.
LOL.
This is what TED talks should be about. Paradigm shifting perspectives and revolutionary ideas.
fredguy2 ,
Nothing revolutionary here, just bare facts.
It is, on a very basic level.
WE'RE JUST GONNA KILL 'EM
but how will this help us?
Watching this from Buenos Aires.
Well, this man has just defined the context in which every TED talk and everything else will have to find its importance or not.
I love this _bigger picture_ perspective.
It's helped me over come a lot of pride, anxiety and depression. The Pale Blue Dot, is probably what helped me the most.
Dantick09
That's funny. When I smoke weed I see youtube.
SpaceManDawn When I smoke weed. I feel like your all doomed anyway. Why not just be cool to each other. The sad fact is that we as a species don't get high and take some time to think about the bigger picture. We need a world LSD day where everyone is allowed to take LSD. I will tell you that climate change and the bigger picture will become much more of a priority than the season finale of game of thrones.
SpaceManDawn the same, and this is a fucking awesome video to watch
homopunk84 LSD is the solution true
The destruction of ones own ego is the solution. Sadly human beings are far too focused on being selfish.
Wow, I was expecting a generic talk about how humans just have higher intelligence, but I've never thought about humans and life this way. Fantastic talk.
lw you should read his book. It’s blown my mind
well higher intelligence gives us the capacity to imagine, communicate more complex ideas, etc... cooperation, i believe, is a mere consequence of those abilities. nevertheless, the bird's eyeview is indeed a more refreshing perspective.
Nataliia Kuchai Which one??
please reply
Higher intelligence means to some godlike abilities. Not God-like but gods like Jupiter who demand sacrifice.
Man this guy..this is the guy you dont want him to stop talking. Respect from Kingdom of saudi arabia
impresionante.... tan intresante como sus libros
Halfway through ‘Sapiens’ I watched this video & now I am reading the rest of it un Yuval’s voice & accent. “Shimpanchij” .
Jokes aside, he is truly a brilliant writer and effective speaker.
Shimpan Ji is my good neighbor.
I’m doing the exact same thing!
Hehehe
Same here
He has an Israeli accent.
In English you sa:
Chim-pan-zee
In Hebrew we say:
Shim-pan-zah
So it's basically a mix of both:
Shim-pan-zee
with a bit of a duplication of the zed at the end for the plural sense (in contrast with a regular s used in English).
Notice also his stress on the first and second last syllable.
I was told by a teacher that a good book takes your hand walks you through a path that you inevitably fall in love with, regardless of how much you know or agree with the content ; his books do so in such an organic way that is hard to stop reading, and even when you do is hard to stop thinking of it. I'm not a book lover but I absolutely admire his writing. Simple and creative.. A true pleasure to read.
Great Lecture about comparison Study.
The best ted talk .I have heard so far.✨
he didnt move his feet. not even once.
He didn't need to. Such an awesome talk! Love it! Clear and insightful.
Clear case of "glued to the floor".
Well, there is a thing called being "boring"! ;) guess you'd know what I mean :)
CryMyName100 good observation
He’s not human!
Hands down, one of the most brilliant minds of 21st century. To be able to showcase the story of thousands of years of human evolution is no easy task and to do it in such a lucid way is just mind blowing.
Take a bow YNH.
You're a class act.
@Rafi Eitan bruh
Absolutely. Truly mind blowing and jaw dropping.
Do more search. THis guy is a highly dangerous psychopat
He's a shady little POS,,,there are millions of them everywhere,,don't be so easily manipulated by actors on stages
He's a homicidal psychopath and wants us eliminated and controlled.
Yuval Noah Harari has a unique and amazing ability to accurately describe the world and humanity. He has a gift for simplifying complex historical events and concepts, making them easily understandable for the general public. His books are amazing!
No, its just that general public is so lazy, they cant think for themselves, which leads them to accept Harari's idiotic notions as serious ones.
He has an ability to manipulate people into accepting extreme and radical ideas. He is key advisor to billionaire power luster Klaus Schwab so no surprise there.
You can't convince an athiest
Amazingly twisted.
In my opinion, this video is one of the very best videos I have ever seen, there is no doubt about that.
Someone watching in New Delhi.... 5:35
was watching from old delhi feel really denied.
Watching from Buenos Aires over here!
Watching from New Delhi 🤘
yes i am watching it from new delhi
From up
Every time I think I have had an original idea, which is kind of useful in order update my mental model of how the world works. People like Yuval come up with exactly the missing piece of my mental puzzle. I'm grateful for his efforts
Same thing happen to me
Once I think I get the original ideas of how the world works the more and more ideas come in my way to make it complete. I think it still isn't stop yet
Thats very beautifully put into words.
Study sociology and philosophy, and you will come up with the same answer as Yuval! He is great at explaining and applying concepts like natural facts, objective and subjective reality (social constructivism)!
Just pray and you will come up with the best answer. Try GOD mate! This guy says we come from apes is hilariously funny and a lie.🤣🥴
It's calledalgorithms ;)
Best story of life i have heard. I enjoyed alot👏👏👏👏
Great description Sir ! Thankyou.
Genesis 1:26-28
I like the way he says Umans.
Mateu Karaś and Shimpanzees.
@@AlexBallMusic gagagaga
Isn't it New York accent?
@@totoze1956 I know but the pronunciation of the word "human" sounds like New York or something.
Israelis dont pronounce the letter H. They say also "aitec" instead of Hi-tec
This man is a pure genius. If you want to know why? Read 'Sapiens'..
Where is the genius in the "chimp would survive better than a human on a lonely island"? The chimp is dinner on the first day. I'll be the first to develop tools, weapons and traps. His conclusion could be true if you place them in a cage. Faulty logic, dismissed by the fact that humans took over this Terra 'island' with limited resources, and not the chimps.
Adi Yo 1. The chimp is conditioned to live in the wild better 2. A chimp is farrrrrr more muscle bound meaning it can get to higher areas and access more food and not to mention it could rip you apart.
Adi Yo You are so silly my friend. You get in your car and drive to McDonald’s to eat. You stand no chance on an island with a chimpanzee. They are literally build for the jungle and you’re built for your couch fat man
@Adi yo, he ment there is objectivity in animals to pursue living. If you both get left in an island, chimpaze will not try to leave the island, or he doesnot think about home, he is placed to this moment at the time he reaches to the island. And he will continue to live there. But if you are a human you think of your marriage and you wana go back, you will think of your job, you want live in the reality you created, thats what people do. If you are lucky you may find some woman and live there to procreate and live but still you will go on creating systems that are fictions. Thats what makes us human. If you live in the moment everything stops. It takes a huge thought to reach this, its called meditation.
Thats why governments tend to fail. The lesser there is a fiction created among its people the more likely it will fail, this fiction is politics. Its not a relity if you think about it. Its there to polarize people. You will find many many more.
This guy is already a well meditated, enlightened being.
He's not genius but smart. He smart historians and writer.
One thing I could not comprehend. Why these many people are perplexed and surprised by the books of Harari these much while all of the points he spoke about we somewhat and somehow knew even from high school.
Because his storytelling is great mate
Cuz he’s the only one who summarised it and presented in a very entertaining manner
Gracias por su transcripción al español no se puede imaginar lo agradecida que estoy porque así puedo entender mejor el mundo y somos 500 millones de parlantes muchísimas gracias señor
Hola .. podría revisar mi página. Tengo traducciones de videos y textos interesantes a Español.
Saludos
: )
This concept of humans living in a dual reality, the ability to flexibly collaborate on a mass scale with strangers, and the willingness to embrace fictional stories... are the 3 greatest pieces from this talk.
If we live in a dual reality, have you seen it?🤣 And we come from apes thats a double hilarious lie!🤣
Talk about being lead DOWN the wrong path!🤣
Decieved.
@@lovetruth5518 emoji detected opinion disregarded
@@scienceium5233
Boo hoo! Your words disregarded🤭.
@@lovetruth5518 we don't come from apes. We and apes share a common ancestor.
And interestingly enough, there is some evidence that our common ancestor was already walking on two feet, and the 4 feet walking chimps and apes do today are an adaptation.
Man, i'm currently reading your book and i can't even stop "wow"-ing about how our society has grown this fast and the way you present those facts is mind blowing. Thankyou!
Can u pls tell me 5 points that you understood from this video
Telah sampai pada saat
yang sama
Imagine having this understanding of humanity. And thinking you are smarter than others
he has admittedly said he wants to kill off the majority of the population he deems "useless" wants you in a pod eating bugs and fighting for carbon credits.
His book completely changed my world view. This book should be mandatory in schools.
which one :o
@@h3risk all of them
Shcools for idiots? Already planty of them. Lots of slaves from monkeys. Humans not from monkeys, believe me. I am not for sure.
@@dendobry645 What?
@@dendobry645 u dint evolve for shure 😂
Yuval, 4 years later: conquering the world's bestselling books in humankind history. I love this man so much.
Yeeeeeeees me to
me tooo...
I like he is at least honest. I came to the same conclusion that there are so many redundant people who can actually survive doing nothing. I just could not put this into the words to explain this to other people.
Would be amazing if this gentleman could explain his message on the illusion of the "wizards" paper exchange for what matters, to musicians and the poetic artist who preach more and more today, that the worship of the same achieves something meaningful...and what they actually sell themselves and their minds devotion to...
No matter how long it has been, I will never forget when I read sapiens for the first time. Not only is a book amazingly written about the story of humanity, it's also an explanation for many of our behaviours and our current social organization. Incredible !
Read the bible , tora or Koran. They are written by an author that actually knows the truth
@@yomomma5792
Pretend that to be true and let the rational people pretend to believe in you.
@@nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415
“It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of goodness. How could a spiritless, soul-less, cross-less, Godless universe become the center of faith, purity, sacrifice, and martyrdom? How can decency be the decent thing if there is no God? Since God is love, why should we be surprised that want of it should end in pain, hate, broken hearts, and war?”
“Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.”
Fulton J sheen
@@Zoomo2697
Oh, what a nice way to dismiss the existence of animal societies and cooperation throughout the animal world!
They penguins, ants, monkeys, bees, dolphins, elephants, gorillas, termites, and a bunch of other animals must be all theist, right?
And... Putting the Problem of Evil in such a way... Have you ever been presented to its logical counterpart, the Problem of Good? It just dismantles all of the defenses the theists try to rise against Epicurus' Paradox.
Again, nice tries. But they are not enough to get a grasp on converting rational people to fund your businesses in form of churches spread out in the world.
@@nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415 I am a fallibile Human not a Animal.
"The Devil has little trouble with those who do not believe in him they are already on him side"
Gates Whiteley quoted -
"Any reader of the OT will find that God did intervene often in the affairs of mankind. He rescued his people - The Jews - only to have them turn their backs on him at the earliest sign of trouble. Impatient, they could not even wait for Moses to come off the mountain.
Any reader of the NT will find that God intervened in the most effective, dramatic and visible way by sending Jesus to earth. God became man and lived with him. The world has never been the same.
God has proven again and again that he is patient, long suffering and desirous of man’s turning to him. He has shown how this turning can be done. Ask any Christian if you don’t know how to turn away from the evil God abhors.
Why evil? A clue is given above by the commentator who pointed out God is not a baby sitter nor is he Santa Claus, for that matter. Evil exists to show the delight God and his created man may find in the alternatives to evil. It would be impossible to love what is good unless one knew the difference between good and evil. It would be impossible to love evil unless one knew the difference between evil and good.
And it often comes down to choices made by man. It is never God’s will that man do evil. But he has given man the will to choose. Choices have consequences, as most of us know from life experiences.
Evil is a necessary tool. It can be used or rejected by man.
Evil is almost like a parasite, requiring good to feed upon. In this analogy, it may be said that evil could not exist without good. And therefore exists because of the good.
Finally, over millennia, it is possible to note that good has triumphed. Nothing lasts forever. Evil is eventually defeated, everywhere."
WOW.. i have not seen a TED talk this good for a very long time! its so refreshing to get this. very thought-provoking and inspiring talk, i'm definitely going to want to hear more from this israeli guy.
I know this comment is a few years old now but if you're still interested you should absolutely buy his book Sapiens. It's incredible
@@calumcooke2040 Also 21 lessons of 21st century. Chosen by none other than Gates in his list of top 5 books read in 2018!
"Factfulness", by Hans Rosling (by the way, his Ted talks are awesome).
Israeli..Ho come on you believed in the story...
I would like to have seen the slides. Excellent talk anyway.
His book, Sapiens, is the reason why I love the movie Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.
The apes in that movie developed a sense of fiction and myth, which allowed them to follow a leader named Ceasar, and coexist in such large numbers.
That's a very good example my friend
Ape together strong
@@muhammadrizkyanugraha monke
I should watch that movie, never got to it
you live in a fictional world. God Created man not coming from monkeys
I went to a few lectures of his, brilliant guy.
ויאמר סבבה! you liiike?
Willliam Robson Yes he was great.
ויאמר סבבה! What an absolutely fascinating talk. He sure went deep...but he kept his composure and passion and focus throughout. Very well done. Definitely gave me a lot to think about.
avedic If you really enjoyed the talk so much, I would reccomend his book:
www.google.co.il/search?q=noah+harari&oq=noah+hara&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0j69i61j0l3.5138j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=sapiens+a+brief+history+of+humankind&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgy4HsxCXfq6-QbZRrkF2oRI3iG1oZGaaXGyiJeBYWpKRXxSS75Sfn-2fl1MpnTTV3qXBhPuSpnLm4S-f7plJZjoAABHr7J5KAAAA
It's on the same subject of the talk, although much more detailed and alot of other things.
Have your read his Brief history of humankind ?
Harari's mention of slaughter houses in the context of "horrible" is a strong clue. I googled him, and yes, very happy to discover that he is a vegan.
also a very evil and dark hearted person.... hes the WEF golden child
I am awed with your views Sir... It's enlightening
After reading sapiens i realised that my whole life was a lie.He is a brilliant sapien...hats off
Ikr
But what makes his story or perspective true?
The book really opens up your mind
@@mohammedyasub4724 Many of these ideas have been around a long long time. Look towards Bakunin, Feuerbach or even Marx. I get it it’s repackaged for our modern times, and he offers a few new ideas but it’s not that cutting edge when you really break down his philosophy.
then you are easily brainwashed hahah
Very clear English! Although it’s not my natural language, I can understand every word that he says.
Very interesting and clear explanation about human evolution in relation with the rest of animals.
Evolution is fake
Me too.
@@rediyuda You are fake
I had the same sensation with his voice. If all english speakers spoke like he, i would don't need more english class. I really love his acent.
Well that's because he doesn't speak english natively too, he speaks hebrew. But yes he's very talented.
Absolutely stunned❤
This is the only ted talk i lovetill today
Best talk ever. I am addicted to it. Gold.
I would actually pay to see 100,000 shimpanzes in Wembley Stadium. Don't act like you wouldn't.
you could see around half of them at Stamford Bridge every other week.
@@hariking22 got it 🤣
Well I would love to see them on my local breaking news. Good luck.
An arsenal Vs Chelsea Cup final Should do the trick
LOL yes ❤😀❤ love from sweden
Heard an Excellent speech in a long long time….
If human beings are cooperating on the basis of a fictional reality, this fictional reality is helpful in creating peace, as per Yuval Noah Harari. My question is that
How does an individual or a group of individuals create a fictional reality that is effective in establishing peace and creating norms that are acceptable to all human beings? As we know, the Constitutions of each and every country have been created by the intelligentsia of those countries to establish peace in society, but in spite of this, they are not very effective and have been amended multiple times.
I've read his book and it was absolutely brilliant. If you enjoyed this talk, you would definitely enjoy "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind".
Excellent talk.
Watching it in Lahore, Pakistan while reading Sapiens
Amazing stuff. Thank you
Interesting thesis, well argued, but also highly contestable! His view can be pushed back against on multiple fronts. Three that jump to my mind:
1. Why is it *one thing*- creativity- that makes humans distinct, rather than a family of things? What exactly is this “creativity” trait that he speaks of?
2. If creativity is just defined as believing fictions, then naturally the next question is how do you define a fiction? A stoplight doesn’t exist in “nature”, yet in human society it seems to be *true* that a red light means stop. It would be strange to call that a “fiction”, at least in ordinary language. One could deny, therefore that social constructs- like money, countries, and stoplights- therefore are “fictional” in the most useful sense.
3. To what degree do humans really “run the world”? Even if it’s true that humans in the past were able to cooperate at relatively large scales without chaos (which I’m not sure is really fair to say), it seems highly doubtful this applies at the global level. Human systems and societies at that scale seem to be hardly less chaotic (think wars, climate change, environmental destruction, mass starvation, etc), and certainly more harmful, than a Wembley Stadium full of gorillas. While this isn’t evidence that humans can’t cooperate flexibly in *greater* numbers than other animals, it also suggests there may be a limit to our ability to do so. This should check the hubris his thesis otherwise might invite.
Yes, this is not a Ted-worthy talk - it’s one guy bloviating.
Good points and perspectives. I think everyone posting raving comments about Harari should read "Mother's and Other's" by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, for a much more substantiated, thoughtfully written and scientifically informed description of human evolution, particularly in regards to human sociability/cooperation, which centers female socialization and alloparental care. Another good book, which addresses much of your point 2 is Ian McGilchrest's "The Master and his emissary", which is ostensibly about the human brain, but synthesizes a lot of information from neuro-science and psychology, as well as anthropology, linguistics, evolutionary biology, and sociology/cultural evolution.
This is the talk in TED I have listened to for my first time. I was just impressed.
I love his books. This man is a legend. I would die for a chitchat with him. Asking him questions like: "Do you think modern humans behave worse than their ancestors? In what ways did our behavior change over time? How do you think it is possible that humans keep on destroying the environment although they know it is the worst thing they could do - at the end- to themselves? How can we act blindly whilst knowing we inevitable will destroy ourselves..." As a teacher, I really think his books should be an option in a lot of subjects.
Here’s the most important question, why does it actually matter?
if God is just a “fictional story”. Why not enjoy our limited time here to the fullest?
@@Aa07aa God is a fictional story. We are not enjoying life fully because not everyone believe in this fiction. The bible is the worst fictional invention causing misery and suffering in this world
@@Aa07aa wtf
To answer your questions (these are discussed in the Sapiens too), 1) & 3) Our ancestors or the humans after the cognitive revolution started migrating to the American and Oceanic (Australia and New Zealand) continents. The moment they set foot in Australia, they, within a couple centuries or so, destroyed 80% of the mega-fauna. Once these people settled there and became the natives and Europeans after millennia rediscovered these continents, they massacred these people (Aztecs, Incas in America, and the Aboriginals in Australia). So, to sum up, we have been this destructive since our origin. If anything, today's Sapiens are much less destructive. Ethnic cleansing and direct destruction of natural ecosystems were normal for our ancestors.
ANTINATALISM 💙
One of the most interesting video that I've ever watched for sure
I love & respect your speech sir. Thank you given this speech for human in this time. I am from kolkata in india.
What a legend, i am really impressed. I am pakistani and i am wonder that how a nice communication skilla he has.keep on sir you are mentor👌
From the book … Canadian History for Dummies … author … Will Ferguson
Playing-card money
Imagine going in to work one day to pick up your pay cheque and having your boss flash you a nervous smile as he fans out a deck and says, “Pick a card, any card.” Well, that’s more or less what happened in New France when the governor ran out of money to pay the wages of soldiers stationed in Québec.
Facing a near mutiny, the governor’s intendant began issuing playing cards instead of currency. He cut each card into four, penned in an amount on the back, and attached his personal seal. The cards were used like regular currency and then exchanged for real money once the supply ships from France arrived.
At one point, more than two million livres of cardboard notes were in circulation (the livre being the standard currency in New France). This, in turn, caused runaway inflation in the colony. The Crown solved the problem by redeeming the notes - but at only half their face value.
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This made me think of Death's monologue in the Hogfather...
"Human's have to believe in the little lies to make the big lies come true..."
So... does that mean the truth is a set of big lies?
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It's also lies.
Lies must contain truth so someone will buy it, otherwise you will realize there's nothing backing the info, no meaning or any ground.
It's all so obvious when you put it like that!
Mr Harari puts it across with extraordinary clarity. And it's pretty amusing too.
the genius term can be labelled on him and his team like many other geniuses, they can make something so complicated looks so easy.. as we know, historian needs to research on a lot of complicated and alien documents that r hard to determine the truth from, yet to be able to connect all those knowledge and tell the world as simple as he did is amazing.
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Why humans run the world / Yuval Noah Harari. TED Comments 5,400. Views 3.8 M seven 7 years ago.
This is literally the summary of the first chapter of his book.
Do the other chapters in the book expand on these ideas as well as more ideas? How's the book btw?
@@kamu747 Yes, the other chapters of the book provide concepts linking to these ideas and eventually lead up to the present world. The last chapter also gives insight to the present situation and what may happen in the future. The book was great, it was already a long time since I've last read it but I loved it, gave me a better view on human existence, and why we are like we are. Definitely a book to read, in fact, I think everyone should read it.
@@megaraph5551 I'll definitely look into it.
One thing that has not been said is that it is not enough just to be cooperative, another great advantage of humans over other animals is precisely our diversity. While animals, within a species, have all the same abilities, we have a great diversity of abilities, each individual with his particular one. And that's the great advantage, groups of individuals can go deeper into their specialties, improving processes rather than being all "generalists" with little depth in each specialty.
Sounds very peaceful
I love it, thanks for your sharing! See more from ai openknowledges!!!
The storytellers amongst us control the world. Of course, each of us is free to tell stories.
One of my favorite writer who speaks out to the world how to think and live this 21st century.
Lol yea, he can speak like this cause the trying to get rid or suppress the other aspect of humans. He's material dude
Progress makes people Happpy?
YES. Progress makes people happy because it's a process in which people successively work in solving the problems of the community and when they finally solve them another ones are faced. This process gives happiness in three ways:
1-Working to solve community problems it's a good way (not the only one of course) to give people a worthy goal to work for. Having a worthy goal to work for makes people life more meaningful and that makes them happier. This point only benefits atheists because believers already have a meaningful life and they are happy with it.
2-When the people who were working solving the community problem finally solve it, they experiment satisfactorial feelings that make them happy. This point benefits both atheists and believers.
3-When the community problem is solved, the life conditions of the community improve and that makes all its members to be happier. This point benefits both atheists and believers.
Apart from providing happiness, working for a worthy goal keeps the mind busy, this way, one doesn't have time to think that we ignore the meaning of all that exists (worthy goals and human life included). Maybe this doesn't grant happiness but at least helps keeping depression at bay. Once again, this point only benefits atheists because believers already know the meaning of existence itself and that makes them happy.
It's important to realize atheists need more than beleievers the existance of PROGRESS to be happy but when PROGRESS is achieved both believers and atheists reach the same level of happiness. Maybe that's why in the periods of History which ahteists have been more numerous, the PROGRESS of Humanity has been greater and in the periods wich believers have been majority PROGRESS has been slower.
What makes PROGRESS even greater it's the fact that never stops. It's an INFINITE SOURCE OF HAPPINESS.
Wow. Now that's called a life changing thought.
Most of lectures in ted is difficult that use words and speeches speed, but Harari uses easy words and explains to us! Although I’m a Korean I always appreciates for him thanks harari!
Here's a coincidence. In his talk, he mentions that he doesn't know who's watching his Ted Talk from New Delhi. Hi, I am watching your talk from New Delhi :)
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From Kolkata
His three books are best book i ever read.
hmmm very interesting interpretation of this world, thank you
a beautiful mind and an amazing story as told in his books. (NB: why the slides don't work is my question to Ted)
It gives me hope that influential and brilliant minds like Yuval agree that animal liberation is a moral imperative of the human race.
That is one of my favorite parts about him
He's talking like he solved every mystery and recount us but there are a lots of things behind our behaviors and life
So, the conclusion is that we can imagine a better world, and implement those ideas that will make a better objective reality.
Talks like this is why I subscribed to Ted. I have been wondering about his last point for a while now. As automation and computers replace lower skilled work, the supply of "low skilled" workers will become proportionally greater and greater as demand for basic human skills dwindles. This means lower and lower pay for more and more people who by no fault of their own are not born with a high IQ. As automation and computers get smarter and smarter, humans by comparison get dumber and dumber. It's already happening now and I'm not sure how society is going to deal with it.
I agree completely, my son is 6 years old and I'm encouraging him into electronic and robotic and software engineering, if you can't beat'em, join'em! ;)
theslimeylimey I think less intelligent people should be employed by the government to do landscaping and façade detailing. Our cities have gotten a lot uglier since WW2 and we should reverse that trend. Politicians who pretend that they can save jobs (aka dying industries) are liars that do more harm than good.
Woah, that was an excellent point you made
theslimeylimey I suggest state-sponsored genetic modification of human reproductive cells that carry the DNA for potential bottom-25% IQ.ratings. This is a process that raises its own bar and therefore results in a continuous rise in average human intelligence. This, of course, replaces existing wellfare programs. We're almost there, scientifically.
Hatchepsut Because the highly educated are not going out in 110 degree heat to pick produce or work in factories looking at the same item for 8 hours a day. Robots? Where are the people you're putting out of work to get an income. It needs to be worked out a whole lot more.
It was too important to me reading his book. He summarizes and explains clearly and very objectively many "isolated" thoughts I've had in my life. What he says makes perfect sense. My way of seeing the world is the same as his. Harari is very intelligent and eloquent. His writing is easy to be readen, no complicated words and setences. Everyone can and should read it.
I also really appreciate in his book that althought it is about humans, he is not antropocentric at all.
I also love the fact that he's vegan and atheist
Just amazing 😮
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Loved loved loved this talk! So brave, truthful and straight to the point!