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This blog post draws on Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus to discuss the subjective needs of plants, microbes, and inanimate objects and whether they deserve respect.   In Homo Deus, author Yuval Harari takes a critical view of animal husbandry, arguing that it is an act of providing animals with what they need to survive and reproduce, while failing to fulfill their subjective needs. He argues...

In this blog post, we explore the impact of scientific and technological advances on the future of the human species and the possibility of extinction, based on the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.   In the movie The Matrix (1999), humans in the future are grown like commercial crops by machines and artificial intelligence. As soon as they are born, they are placed in tiny tanks where they...

In this blog post, we’ll discuss the claim of human superiority in Sapiens and explore whether it’s a privilege or a result of our interactions with other organisms in the ecosystem.   In chapters 1 and 2 of Homo sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari argues that a variety of unique human traits have played a large role in our current position of dominance. While he notes that the brain and...

In this blog post, we explore a future where non-organic algorithms dominate humanity and discuss the positive changes that could result.   In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari concludes with a discussion of data religion. According to data science, as technology advances, the performance of non-organic algorithms will surpass that of organic algorithms. The argument is that non-organic...

This blog post explores how cyborg engineering could transform human identity and what impact it might have on humanity’s future.   Yuval Harari’s “Sapiens” includes this passage: “Attempts to improve us are doomed to fail, because even if the whole could be improved, our minds remain untouchable.” Interpreting this, it implies that if our minds could be altered, our entire being...

This blog post explores various scenarios concerning humanity’s end and how scientific and technological progress could threaten our future.   How long can humans live? We always live with death close at hand. In daily life, we can meet death for various reasons: tripping and falling, driving a car incorrectly, or contracting cancer. However, threats facing all of humanity, beyond...

This blog post critically examines Yuval Noah Harari’s arguments about fiction and reality in ‘Homo Deus’.   The word “Deus” in the book’s title ‘Homo Deus’ means God. That is, the author, Yuval Noah Harari, argues through this book that humans aspire to transcend Homo sapiens and become gods. He states that due to rapid technological and scientific advancement, along with the...

In this blog post, I question Yuval Noah Harari’s argument about human originality presented in ‘Homo Deus’.   In the book ‘Homo Deus’, Yuval Noah Harari states that the human trait enabling humanity to dominate Earth is the ability to communicate and cooperate. Harari’s claim that this ability is the fundamental capacity distinguishing humans from other species rests on two main...

With advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology, will humanity evolve or go extinct? An intriguing Sapiens book review exploring the future of humanity transformed by technology!   “Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens were just another insignificant animal in a corner of Africa, concerned only with their own survival. Over the next tens of thousands of years, this species became...

This blog post takes an in-depth look at how far animal rights should be respected within the mechanization of modern production processes.   I read Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens. In the section addressing the mechanization of modern production processes, I encountered the idea that production processes involving farm animals have also been mechanized, and that animals are now...