Yuval Noah Harari — "The human mind is an algorithm."
The human mind is an algorithm.
The human mind is an algorithm.
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"The idea of a 'human being' is changing fundamentally."
"The greatest danger to humanity is not AI, but human stupidity."
"The idea of a stable, authentic self is a modern myth."
"Democracy is based on the belief that human collective wisdom outweighs individual genius."
"Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised."
Israeli historian whose Sapiens (2011) and Homo Deus (2015) reframed big history for a mass audience and sold tens of millions of copies. Closely associated with Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel author and Harari's clearest intellectual ancestor) and Steven Pinker (data-driven optimist contemporary). For an intellectual contrast, see Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist and Maps of Meaning author — Peterson's Maps of Meaning argues that religious-mythological structure is the load-bearing architecture of human meaning — exactly the framing Harari's 'religion as useful fiction' thesis treats as historically transitory. The two are the largest-platform popular intellectuals of the 2010s with opposite views on whether religion encodes deep truth.
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