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.
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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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 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 🙂
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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)!
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.
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 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.
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.
@@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.
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 !
@@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."
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb I sanctified thee AND I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” - Jeremiah 1:5 Your parents did not make you. They did what was necessary to allow a miraculous process to fulfill itself in the living breathing entity that is you, but no human engineered you into existence. And if man cannot make a soul, then don't let any man destroy your soul, whether through vile and visceral words or through an abusive summation of your worth. You are a miracle and miracles are beyond the reach of menace. God Bless You All.
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 :)
"Sapiens: A brief History of Human Kind" is the book that got me into reading at the age of 27. I have hardly read any books prior to that in my entire life, only what absolutely necessary throughout the education process. I bought this one because of its very favorable reviews online and boy was it worth it. It is a masterpiece and I encourage everyone to give it a try. After I finished this one and also read Harari's other pieces I realized reading can in fact be joyful and entertaining. Been reading 15+ books every year since that time, some are better, some are worse, but "Sapiens: A brief History of Human Kind" is still no.1
@@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.
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.
He's not saying poor people are useless. He's talking about potential dangers of technology. If companies can have an AI doing the job of 100 people, they will fire these people immediately. What if it could do the job of 80% of workers? You'll have a lot of people without a job. I'm not saying we should stop technological advancements. I'm saying we need to prepare to face the future, not just as individuals but as a society
@@edgbarraAI won’t be that influential. If it replaces the jobs of people then people will find other things to do. People help other people become rich. People will just use AI to make other new jobs otherwise it won’t make money therefore it would fail. That would be the case for almost all inventions like cars and phones. They replaced many jobs but they made much more jobs. What would happen if ai replaced 80% of jobs? 80% people would just find other ways to sustain eachothers lives and that’s where money is made so. No system that doesn’t consider human interaction can make money.
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!
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.
"Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths". Sapiens- A Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari. What a marvelous book.
10:36 -10:46 " ... a nation or a state, like israel or iran or Franse or germany. This is just a story. that we have invented and became extremely attached to." WOOOOOORD
@@twinhalf5806 , well, humans are as similar to each other as chimpanzees are to each other. We don't have such a big difference in DNA between different cultures as you think we have.
@@twinhalf5806 Read the book. It's basically just one of many examples he gives about human society relying on "myths" or rather things people believe in that are not physical but "give force" in the world e.g. corporations, money, religion, etc. These are all not really things you can tough and are not really "real" but are necessary constructs in the human world.
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.
@@aidagholampour100 because I never heard our social constructs described in such a way. "We humans control the world because we live in a dual reality. All other animals live in an objective reality- elephants, trees, rivers, fish. We also share this objective reality but have constructed on top of this a second layer of fictional reality, things like nations, gods, money and corporations. The most powerful forces in the world today are these fictional entities. Today the very survival of the elephants, trees, rivers, fish, depends on the decisions and wishes of fictional entities."
@@marialuisdelgado small* 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.
I owe this man my degree in anthropology, the shift he caused me from pure science to anthropology. A true teacher i'd rather worship than some supernatural entity. I devoured his books , ideas and sure adore him as a thinker of our age.
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.
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.
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.
i know yuhal from his book "sapiens" like most of us and watching this talk is like reading the book again and it's great just go get his book and aware the duality of reality that humans create it's like learning the life we live and how all this things happened
And so, the flickering light of humanity was extinguished to the sound of thunderous applause... The mear fact that we don't see as a people, how insidious this man is. Shows just how far gone we are.
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.
It's always very interesting to listen to Harari, even though not fully convincing. Behind these corporations, there are concrete individuals making choices that affect the lives of billions of other concrete individuals, and this is not a fiction. It's simply the screen created by these wizards (the lawyers) to guarantee concrete individuals paying them with impunity
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).
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
I'm a Japanese high school student His English is so easy to listen to that I can understand what he is saying! Also his presentation is great! I want to read his book ❤
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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 ?
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
Got chills when he said , New Delhi 😮😮 as I am sitting and watching him over the Internet in new delhi
Coincidence is trivial. Keep your eye on the damn ball.
Agreed! @@mickvk
An the everlasting love between a Jew and a Hindian.
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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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 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?
Kudos to the interviewer at the end .
His first question was revealing.
“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 book, Sapiens, literally cured my depression.
Inayah Cee Literally "literally"! 😀
@@deepermind4884 hahaha, good one!
why?
Which book
Which one?
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
1. Communication
2. Collaboration at Scale
3. Stories
4. Belief Systems
5. Great Story Systems
6. Dual Reality
7. Tiktok
@@gustavoc1072 not wrong
@@gustavoc1072that’s the end of humanity
Communism is what these people want
00i😊 please @@gustavoc1072
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!
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.
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
I have always asked these questions since primary school
"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.
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.
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.
In my opinion, this video is one of the very best videos I have ever seen, there is no doubt about that.
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.
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
Best talk ever. I am addicted to it. Gold.
This ted talk is literally his book in 17 minutes.
Excellent talk.
"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.
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...
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
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.
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 ;)
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.
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.
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 ?
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
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."
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.
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.
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".
Man this guy..this is the guy you dont want him to stop talking. Respect from Kingdom of saudi arabia
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
1k dislikes are from bonobos being upset for not being mentioned on his talk
😂😂
Genuinely said!
And the orangotains???
haha
bonobos are friendly they would not be so mean
Yuval, 4 years later: conquering the world's bestselling books in humankind history. I love this man so much.
Yeeeeeeees me to
me tooo...
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth from the womb I sanctified thee AND I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” - Jeremiah 1:5
Your parents did not make you. They did what was necessary to allow a miraculous process to fulfill itself in the living breathing entity that is you, but no human engineered you into existence.
And if man cannot make a soul, then don't let any man destroy your soul, whether through vile and visceral words or through an abusive summation of your worth.
You are a miracle and miracles are beyond the reach of menace.
God Bless You All.
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 :)
timestamp?
From Kolkata
This is the talk in TED I have listened to for my first time. I was just impressed.
I love & respect your speech sir. Thank you given this speech for human in this time. I am from kolkata in india.
"Sapiens: A brief History of Human Kind" is the book that got me into reading at the age of 27. I have hardly read any books prior to that in my entire life, only what absolutely necessary throughout the education process.
I bought this one because of its very favorable reviews online and boy was it worth it. It is a masterpiece and I encourage everyone to give it a try.
After I finished this one and also read Harari's other pieces I realized reading can in fact be joyful and entertaining. Been reading 15+ books every year since that time, some are better, some are worse, but "Sapiens: A brief History of Human Kind" is still no.1
He said buenos aires. I'm from buenos aires. I feel stalked.
😂😂😂🙏
Lols
entra un buen choripan
logic
Same here from new delhi
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.
"Who do you think I am, a human?"
I think you are a human! Because you have smartphone😊, sorry it is joking))
Sergii Boiko this line is from The Matrix !
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.
He's not saying poor people are useless. He's talking about potential dangers of technology. If companies can have an AI doing the job of 100 people, they will fire these people immediately. What if it could do the job of 80% of workers? You'll have a lot of people without a job. I'm not saying we should stop technological advancements. I'm saying we need to prepare to face the future, not just as individuals but as a society
@@edgbarraAI won’t be that influential. If it replaces the jobs of people then people will find other things to do. People help other people become rich. People will just use AI to make other new jobs otherwise it won’t make money therefore it would fail. That would be the case for almost all inventions like cars and phones. They replaced many jobs but they made much more jobs. What would happen if ai replaced 80% of jobs? 80% people would just find other ways to sustain eachothers lives and that’s where money is made so. No system that doesn’t consider human interaction can make money.
he just summarize his books in 17 minutes of this talk
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 storytellers amongst us control the world. Of course, each of us is free to tell stories.
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.
it’s surreal for kids as myself to have access to such information nowadays... it really opens your mind
Be careful that you don't open your mind to evil🙏
"Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths". Sapiens- A Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari. What a marvelous book.
10:36 -10:46
" ... a nation or a state, like israel or iran or Franse or germany. This is just a story. that we have invented and became extremely attached to."
WOOOOOORD
Twin Half, why do all these matter? I can safely bet that 300 years from now, there won’t be any “nations” and so called stuff.
@@anjusanal, You have to be very naive to believe that. Humans are not all the same.
@@twinhalf5806 , well, humans are as similar to each other as chimpanzees are to each other. We don't have such a big difference in DNA between different cultures as you think we have.
@@anjusanal IQ difference
@@twinhalf5806 Read the book. It's basically just one of many examples he gives about human society relying on "myths" or rather things people believe in that are not physical but "give force" in the world e.g. corporations, money, religion, etc. These are all not really things you can tough and are not really "real" but are necessary constructs in the human world.
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
this book blew my mind!!!!
Why?
@@aidagholampour100 because I never heard our social constructs described in such a way. "We humans control the world because we live in a dual reality. All other animals live in an objective reality- elephants, trees, rivers, fish. We also share this objective reality but have constructed on top of this a second layer of fictional reality, things like nations, gods, money and corporations. The most powerful forces in the world today are these fictional entities. Today the very survival of the elephants, trees, rivers, fish, depends on the decisions and wishes of fictional entities."
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?
@@marialuisdelgado small*
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.
I owe this man my degree in anthropology, the shift he caused me from pure science to anthropology. A true teacher i'd rather worship than some supernatural entity. I devoured his books , ideas and sure adore him as a thinker of our age.
Yet in the total scheme of things the phenomena of his existence, or ours, lasts but a little longer than a fly.
Same for me! I'm currently reading Sapiens and I loved it sooooo much. I plan to read the others, I wonder if they are as good?
This is what TED talks should be about. Paradigm shifting perspectives and revolutionary ideas.
Only if you don’t know God - at least this one.
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.
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.
I respect this man . Many greetings from Baghdad, Iraq.
This man gave an accurate prediction in 2015,they are happening now
i know yuhal from his book "sapiens" like most of us and watching this talk is like reading the book again and it's great just go get his book and aware the duality of reality that humans create
it's like learning the life we live and how all this things happened
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
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
And so, the flickering light of humanity was extinguished to the sound of thunderous applause... The mear fact that we don't see as a people, how insidious this man is. Shows just how far gone we are.
Are you saying I can become a career drug and computer game user?
I like this guy.
This person is a great genious.This all make so much sense.Also I am currently reading his "SAPIENS ".Best book ever!!!!!!
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👌
The best ted talk .I have heard so far.✨
This lizard king is the best Ted talk you heard? Sounds like he’s trying to be God and make the poor all useless animals
His book is a really interesting read
How is it called?
@@jesuslanderos.2442 hello Jesus Landeros😊! SAPIENS (A Brief history of humankind)
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.
I like his saying Yumans instead of Humans :) respects from Turkey Great Man.
Better Call Saul!
Always get intellectual boost by watching harari.(from Dhaka)
From Noakhali 🙋♂️
Loved loved loved this talk! So brave, truthful and straight to the point!
Close your eyes and imagine Sacha Baron Cohen.
hahahahaha
MrMrMaran Admiral Aladeen lol
😂😂😂👍👍👍
hhhh he reminds me of the character Bruno. but kidding aside this guy is tremandously amazing
Best comment ever
Wonderful explanation .But Iam sad that we are fighting with each other with these wars.
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
Why does this guy sound exactly like Gru from Deapicable Me?😂
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Because... Various accents other than British/American/Australian ? 😁
Hahahaha I didn't notice that. But now yeah I agree the way he talks is like Gru
Now I can't stop thinking it's GRu 🤣
I love this man, his mind is so powerful and beautiful
It's always very interesting to listen to Harari, even though not fully convincing. Behind these corporations, there are concrete individuals making choices that affect the lives of billions of other concrete individuals, and this is not a fiction. It's simply the screen created by these wizards (the lawyers) to guarantee concrete individuals paying them with impunity
The few decide the fate of the many?
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).
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
my art teacher recommended this video so I'm watching this and is interesting
What a brilliant talk
impresionante.... tan intresante como sus libros
The most underrated speech in human history♥️
Why does this guy hate shimpanzees so much?
Dean Mc Creary These shimfanzees sounds deadly. We should kill them all.
No, it's definitely Shimpanzees, listen to how he pronounces it, I think you'll be surprised.
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Pretty sure he's talking about shimfanzees.
madmax21st Oh yeah, sorry these actually can banana shoot laser. They are even more dangerous.
I'm a Japanese high school student
His English is so easy to listen to that I can understand what he is saying!
Also his presentation is great!
I want to read his book ❤
Do it, you'll not regret it
By humans he meant him and his pals. Now they want to rule the whole world
If every single person on earth understands this think how better world would be.
He spoke my mind out.
His crystal clear communications is phenomenal..
Thank you professor.
This man is smart.
Αυτή του η ομιλία, τα βιβλία του μετά, μου άνοιξαν ορίζοντες που δεν ήξερα καν ότι υπάρχουν.. ΣΕ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ Yuval Noah Harari
I will never forget when I read Sapiens for the first time. Many thanks Yuval