I finished Harari’s ‘21Lessons for the 21st century’ today.
I was looking forward to read this and this is the reason i searched online for websites where i could download ebooks online. Coincidentally, my sister gifted me the hard copy around same time. It is a keeper.
He is an amazing writer. He kept me glued to the book. I have tried reading his sapiens as well. In 21 Lessons, he posits the growing Research in artificial intelligence, global warming and biotech as few of those problems which cannot be resolved within our closed borders. He argues that these are global problems which can only be resolved globally and not by hiding behind our nationalist garbs.
He has talked about religion, humanity, mind, god, reason, nationalism, culture and information etc, that are somehow shaping this world. But he says the kind of threats we imagine would come on us are not really the threats. They are far beyond our conception. Becuase we are wound up in the rhetoric build up by movies and fiction about future of AI and biotech. Accoridng to Harari real threat is somewhere else.
I liked it a lot. But i did find some issues, for example the way he criticises liberals conception of mind and reason. He tries to sound rational and then makes everything spiritual by going on to buddhism to tell you how to tame our mind. Because all our desires are not the desires of our mind which need to be controlled. This sounds very metaphysical and beyond one’s understanding.
Anyways i am looking forward to reading his other books.
I was looking forward to read this and this is the reason i searched online for websites where i could download ebooks online. Coincidentally, my sister gifted me the hard copy around same time. It is a keeper.
He is an amazing writer. He kept me glued to the book. I have tried reading his sapiens as well. In 21 Lessons, he posits the growing Research in artificial intelligence, global warming and biotech as few of those problems which cannot be resolved within our closed borders. He argues that these are global problems which can only be resolved globally and not by hiding behind our nationalist garbs.
He has talked about religion, humanity, mind, god, reason, nationalism, culture and information etc, that are somehow shaping this world. But he says the kind of threats we imagine would come on us are not really the threats. They are far beyond our conception. Becuase we are wound up in the rhetoric build up by movies and fiction about future of AI and biotech. Accoridng to Harari real threat is somewhere else.
I liked it a lot. But i did find some issues, for example the way he criticises liberals conception of mind and reason. He tries to sound rational and then makes everything spiritual by going on to buddhism to tell you how to tame our mind. Because all our desires are not the desires of our mind which need to be controlled. This sounds very metaphysical and beyond one’s understanding.
Anyways i am looking forward to reading his other books.
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