#sapiens

"In contrast, over the course of the next 1500 years christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion"

"on 24 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God's love for humankind. (...) Between 5000 and 10000 Protestants were slaughtered in less than twenty four hours. When the Pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he (...) commissioned Giorgio vasari to decorate one of the Vatican's rooms with a fresco of the massacre (the room is currently off limits to visitors)" (I wonder why the church wouldn't want people to see that)

They analyze #gravity on the #Moon and discover that #humans born there might not be '#Homo #sapiens'

This is the kind of book that breaks down our delusions and makes us watch our own beliefs crumble. The last time I felt like this, I was reading "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra.

"Homo Deus" by Yuval Noah Harari is one hundred per cent a brain opener. It discusses the possible scenarios of our future and the next step in human evolution. The themes of Robothiesm are presented in the final chapter as the rise of AI and an omnipresent internet covering and connecting each and every 'thing'. We're killing god in the present and in the future we'll become gods and then merge into the oneness of Dataism.

I loved the part where the author said that "All scenarios described in this book are possibilities not prophecies". It shows his ability to question his own belief system. That's the primary essence needed for an objective observer of the world. We are living in an age where the flow of information is happening at an unprecedented rate and to navigate through this Harari offers some wisdom:

"In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information."