Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The algorithms controlling humans work through sensations, emotions and thoughts.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“These imagined orders are inter-subjective, so in order to change them we must simultaneously change the consciousness of billions of people,” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“However, it is not easy to think and behave in new ways, because our thoughts and actions are usually constrained by present-day… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The widespread assumption is that somehow, the brain produces the mind; somehow millions of neurons fire signals at one another create or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“an even deeper level of human consciousness. Such vicious circles can go on for centuries and even millennia, perpetuating an imagined hierarchy… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The subjective is something that exists depending on the consciousness and beliefs of a single individual. It disappears or changes if that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What is a spaceship compared to an eternally young cyborg who does not breed and has no sexuality, who can share thoughts… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“present we have no idea how or why dataflows could produce consciousness and subjective experiences. Maybe we’ll have a good explanation in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“And it is sobering to realise that, at least for armies and corporations, the answer is straightforward: intelligence is mandatory but consciousness… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We take this reality for granted, thinking it is natural, inevitable and immutable. We forget that our world was created by an accidental chain of events, and that history shaped not only our technology, politics and society, but also our thoughts, fears and dreams. The cold hand of the past emerges from the grave of our ancestors, grips us by… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“We are akin to the inhabitants of a small isolated island who have just invented the first boat, and are about to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“When thousands of cars slowly edge their way through London, we call that a traffic jam, but it doesn’t create some great… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If we think in term of months, we had probably focus on immediate problems such as the turmoil in the Middle East,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century it sounds childish to compare the human psyche to a steam engine. Today we know of a far more sophisticated technology – the computer – so we explain the human psyche as if it were a computer processing data rather than a steam engine regulating pressure. But this new analogy may turn out to be just… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“The inter-subjective is something that exists within the communication network linking the subjective consciousness of many individuals. If a single individual changes… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“1.Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2.Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. 3.Non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we know ourselves. These three processes raise three key questions, which I hope will stick in your mind long after you have finished this book: 1.Are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Science-fiction movies generally assume that in order to match and surpass human intelligence, computers will have to develop consciousness. But real science… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified particular nations as the engines of human progress, and concluded that these nations ought to bludgeon or even exterminate anyone standing in their way. It should be remembered, though, that Hitler and the Nazis represent only… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
