Recently i read an amazing book, Homo Deus Brief history of tomorrow , my mind kept thinking; why do we consider ourselves better than the rest of mammals on this planet. Why we can't see the truth and live in objective reality.
Our evolution is based on our imagination and how we have developed stories which take us from objective reality to fictional reality.
The greatest gift, we have is art of story telling. A story which is believed collectively by humans to live in a reality which again is created by us. Sounds scary!!! but then thats who we are.
Many believe that we are the superior race, many also believe that we have a purpose in our life. We are the rulers of Planet Earth. Other animals are barely existing as we have consciousness while others don't.
Maybe the truth is not what we have repeatedly believed in. Maybe we are scared of changes which will come if we start living objectively. Maybe the "Elite" who are ruling the planet don't want others to see through the lies woven through centuries.
Its always good to go back to basics when we cannot understand what is happening around us. The fast pace with which this world is changing and developing is scary for many.
We all know Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Our development to become Humanoids is on the curve. What ever we do, we cannot stop this change. Our mental health is depleting rapidly as we are using more and more gadgets. We are not in tune with ourselves as our senses are more dormant than they were 30 years ago.
We are evolving much faster than we did in last thousands of years. Some call this progress in technology, while some call it doomsday. But the reality is we are evolving and if we are smart and let go of our fear and stupidity we might just see the dawn of new civilisation.
Our story telling ability, made us believe in religion and community life. This solves the purpose of all living in harmony. Superstition became the cultures backbone to heard humans like sheep. Our fear about everything made us believe in what was told to us. No one wants to be an odd sheep, therefore all move together as one.
We created money for trade, what surprises me is in this world where people are fighting for whose religion is better even in 21st century, we have no objection for money being used globally by all. We have no objection and nor do we want to know which religion person is giving money to us for trade. So does this imply that various man made god are redundant and the new god of today is money?
Which obviously we all believe in.
There is no fight that US $ is better than Euro or Dinars or Rupees etc etc. Money is universally accepted in any currency.
We are the greatest story tellers, our life is one big story. From the day we are born, a story is born. Sometimes i feel we are like an onion, we have layers on us which save us from reality and our lies which we repeat everyday hardens our story. As you peel the layers of onion, our eyes water. similarly if we try to understand our life built on lies and try to know the truth the pain will be unbearable and will get tears in our eyes.
Questions raised in Homo Deus, make me wonder what is our tomorrow?
What will happen to democracy when Google and Facebook come to know our likes and our political preferences better than we know them ourselves?
What will happen to the welfare state when computers push humans out of the job market and create a massive new “useless class”?
How might Islam handle genetic engineering?
Will Silicon Valley end up producing new religions, rather than just novel gadgets?
Our evolution is based on our imagination and how we have developed stories which take us from objective reality to fictional reality.
The greatest gift, we have is art of story telling. A story which is believed collectively by humans to live in a reality which again is created by us. Sounds scary!!! but then thats who we are.
Many believe that we are the superior race, many also believe that we have a purpose in our life. We are the rulers of Planet Earth. Other animals are barely existing as we have consciousness while others don't.
Maybe the truth is not what we have repeatedly believed in. Maybe we are scared of changes which will come if we start living objectively. Maybe the "Elite" who are ruling the planet don't want others to see through the lies woven through centuries.
Its always good to go back to basics when we cannot understand what is happening around us. The fast pace with which this world is changing and developing is scary for many.
We all know Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Our development to become Humanoids is on the curve. What ever we do, we cannot stop this change. Our mental health is depleting rapidly as we are using more and more gadgets. We are not in tune with ourselves as our senses are more dormant than they were 30 years ago.
We are evolving much faster than we did in last thousands of years. Some call this progress in technology, while some call it doomsday. But the reality is we are evolving and if we are smart and let go of our fear and stupidity we might just see the dawn of new civilisation.
Our story telling ability, made us believe in religion and community life. This solves the purpose of all living in harmony. Superstition became the cultures backbone to heard humans like sheep. Our fear about everything made us believe in what was told to us. No one wants to be an odd sheep, therefore all move together as one.
We created money for trade, what surprises me is in this world where people are fighting for whose religion is better even in 21st century, we have no objection for money being used globally by all. We have no objection and nor do we want to know which religion person is giving money to us for trade. So does this imply that various man made god are redundant and the new god of today is money?
Which obviously we all believe in.
There is no fight that US $ is better than Euro or Dinars or Rupees etc etc. Money is universally accepted in any currency.
We are the greatest story tellers, our life is one big story. From the day we are born, a story is born. Sometimes i feel we are like an onion, we have layers on us which save us from reality and our lies which we repeat everyday hardens our story. As you peel the layers of onion, our eyes water. similarly if we try to understand our life built on lies and try to know the truth the pain will be unbearable and will get tears in our eyes.
Questions raised in Homo Deus, make me wonder what is our tomorrow?
What will happen to democracy when Google and Facebook come to know our likes and our political preferences better than we know them ourselves?
What will happen to the welfare state when computers push humans out of the job market and create a massive new “useless class”?
How might Islam handle genetic engineering?
Will Silicon Valley end up producing new religions, rather than just novel gadgets?
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