I'm pleased myself, but as far as being the most practical area of study...that's seems dubious. I'd also question whether there's been any increase in the number of job openings for a philosophy major.

Maybe also because she is a pleasant person

AREN,T YOU GLAD shapiro and peterson weren,t on

@@christophermurphy6958 Actually, a debate between Harari and Peterson is long overdue. We never get the right combinations to make actual progress in the overarching issues.

She is a femme niste

now I am intrigued! can you suggest other good ones?

@@PrestonWatches , the reviews of his last two books where pretty good. I find Yuval a true, "outside the box "thinker! So glad he's out there for us all to hear and learn from! Ironically, If not for the same algorithms that he speaks of... his message would not even be getting out there. Perfect Timing? (Yes)

I agree!

He truly is! But he has ruined my life cause no matter what I do, my mom would always be disappointed in me for not being like him

Men interviewers have ego and territory issues, keep cutting and bringing subjective agenda

Then you'll enjoy not having free will?

Er ist verrückt. Dein erster Eindruck war schon richtig.

Agree about Zuck, but I think Weiss did a fine job here. There was obviously a time limit and she covered all the relevant ground and offered insightful feedback. She even called him out on the globalism/scalability issue and made Harari squirm a bit.

Thank you!

Eisenstein is immediately who comes to mind in relationship to Harari's discussion of stories. Harari and Eisenstein seem to be in agreement that we have reached a threshold- 'a place between stories'.

gavin mccloskey are you being sarcastic about avoiding radical thinkers ? it is like saying gray is the only balanced color to consider and that you should never look at pure red, green or blue.

@@amanieux That said, there are some radicals who've simply gone over the rainbow (cough, cough...Alex Jones)

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I agree but I hope that some aliens are going to save us in the end. ;)

Harari = SATAN in the flesh

Ok, but what the hell is emotional intelligence?

@@TheDionysianFields it's a weird way of saying maturity.

Really how do you define Emotional intelligence and Mental Balance.

And that can only be achieved in a loving, caring ,nurturing environment .

@@blank003 Lacking in a Trump ?

Just listen to yourself bragging.

Lucifer was the angel of light

It is precisely because the "hard" sciences dispel the myth of our specialness that the humanities are crucial in helping us to determine how to shape meaning as thinking apes.

RESPECT. COMPASSION LOVE FORGIVENESS YOURSELF AND ALL OTHERS. Until humanity can learn these basics our fate will be sealed to a death for all that is.

yes and his insights into meditation are really good too. I believe him to possibly be the reincarnation of Arnold Toynbee who was the last great philosophical historian. (no I am not a serial killer) .

I love him too

UnConditional Love vs Theology ... Polishing The Diamond ... (Of Democracy) ...

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Nate YES. She is brilliant in guiding the interview & dealing with questioners. A strong woman with charm. I'd hate to get on the wrong side of her...she'd nail any BS we came out with. It was an interview that makes us think. I agree with you & wish you all the best. PS, where do we go to find a woman like that?.

@@derycktrahair8108 I've known a few super smart and clever women like her. For me personally, the relationship only worked in the short run, I'm sorry to say. I wish you better luck.

get a doctor! Fast :D

I think you may be on to something. Back in the '80s a friend of mine said, "We had our civil rights movement, which was sorely needed and did the whole world much good (www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021702491.html), but now we need a civil responsibilities movement." I think the decades have proved her to be correct. We need to keep our best stories that came from the civil rights movement and, indeed, from the American revolutionaries about inalienable human rights, but there is one more story type we need and a bunch of stories we need to drop. We need to adopt stories about individual accountability (Alain de Botton, 12-Step fellowships), self knowledge, HOW to pursue happiness (cognitive behaviorism), and civil responsibility (MLK, Ghandi, America's constitution). We need better communication skills (Marshall Rosenburg) including a moral imperative to truly value (namaste, NAACP-"A mind is a terrible thing to waste.") the spark of life, divinity, soul, sovereignty (call it what you will) in every human (and animal??). We need more stories about how any chain is only as strong as its weakest link (Black Lives Matter, Me Too), how plugging the hole in the sinking ship saves ALL of us, and like the story of the bundle of sticks (Bible). We need to drop the stories that corporations and other power brokers have led us to believe, the ones that divide and commoditize us, assuming you'll allow commoditize as a real word. For too long, we've allowed public education to bend less toward elevating the individual, and, thereby, humanity as a whole, into a people, each of whom is the best possible expression of the best within him/herself. Instead, public education has bent more toward creating conformity to what corporations and governments tell us we need. Not that a good work ethic, for example, is a bad thing, but to the point that it breaks a person?? Turns them into a corporate slave? A person who has time for little else? And what about so many people who think voting is the sum total of their civic responsibility, let alone those who think even just voting is futile? Maybe there's even something to be said about being a good customer, but a blind, voracious consumer? And, yes, government and public schools have their roles to play in this much needed paradigm change. But, perhaps the real power to appeal to, who can expedite whatever process it's going to take to unite us globally, to inspire us to MAKE these changes resides in, of all places, Hollywood!! I remember the first time I saw a tv commercial with black people in it. Soon after, there were tv commercials with blacks and whites in the SAME commercial. Much later, in the same FAMILIES!! Oh, my! In my day, to walk into a room full of nothing but white people was normal. With integration, as a white person, seeing a person of color in the room for the first time was a novel experience. Now, we have a generation of young people who would think it weird to walk into a room full of people where diversity was so drastically underrepresented (Parkland). The civil rights movement was powerful. Many gave their lives for it. But, tv and movies "normalized" and fast-tracked the concepts of inclusion and diversity. ("I must away, for the people march and I am their leader!") So, now let's have more of those PLUS shows and movies that promote stories that celebrate the concepts of global consciousness, individual sovereignty and value, self love, self expression, human connection, mutual caring, wisdom, love, and critical thinking. This is the 11th hour. I take solace in being old, for I dread to face what I fear the rest of you are up against. On the other hand, I am so inspired by so many of our young, by the awakenings I see happening here & there, by people like the two on the stage in this video, that I wish I could live long enough to see how our story ends, to see if my fellow humans become their own deus ex machina in this otherwise spiraling tragedy. Jesus wept. I concur... but I have my fingers crossed!

Is that all you have to say, I would like to know why you say this, you maybe right I need a doctor, but if you understood what I said please let me know why you have such a reaction. I hope you can say more about what you think about what Harari is saying.

Eddie Kianana2014 I’m not gonna even get on a dialogue sorry! Mean no disrespect! But... I would sure like you to show me where exactly did you see YNH affirm consciousness is only pollution! Video, article, whatever...

Eddie - look up David Bohm On Thought; also Krishna.urti

Mike Lee, you had me till the end. I'd say it like this: We can't build stable social order out of ONLY truth. But we can build stable social order -- especially now in this modern era that is so, so very much more informed compared to past eras -- based on truth (incl pursuit of truth) AND (your) "effective" story together in combination. (See Harari and Harris conversations, to date, there are two.) Yours truly, truth seeker and story lover. :)

I found your quote as he was saying it...

Yes, the will to power also operates on interstellar scales, as does Darwinism. But, the interstellar version is much more dangerous--more powerful weapons, less deterrence.

Indeed!

But it overlooks India because he wants to paint this narrative that the East and West trade places all the time, and he is just trying to sell books. Inclusion of India in either East or West would have messed up his narrative. India traded with both and developed some core technologies before either. Also by reading his book you would assume that India had no technological leadership nor economic power throughout history which is not true. For example this study by economist Angus Madison cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/Screen%20Shot%202012-06-20%20at%209.37.55%20AM.png would shock anyone you reads his book. Europe and the West was pretty much irrelevant throughout history. And if you go to BC era India was many times the size of China. Also he is a historian and his graphs and scales are messed up. The four criteria he uses is arbitrary.

I read the book--it is a good book too, but there is not philosophical depth in it, as it is in Harari's.

Thusal: Your link merely shows that 2000 years ago per capita income was similar throughout the settled world, including India. Madison's numbers are, in any case, an invention: faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/Book_Reviews/Maddison.pdf In terms of contributions to human development, India ranks third, behind Europe and China. There is no fourth.

Artificial Intelligence might be able to make predictions of the future based on our lifestyle choices.

failure of our imagination to predict the future is true at any time in history. a tipping point just make the difference more sudden and radical, thinking that we are now at a tipping point because of recent rapid progress in AI or biogenetics seems questionable and very chronocentric. thinkers in the time of the invention of the printing press certainly had similar alarming thought about being at an inflection point in the history.

People are having trouble with the word "colonize," and with expansion in general. But I think it could still work, with enough support. I'm sure there were those who thought going to the moon was a travesty.

yeah reality hurts.