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![]() ![]() ![]() You can find answers to questions like: Is religion still relevant and What should I do with my life when everything is automated. He also looks at how ideas about future truths are often more. This leads him to a comment that power, even that of individuals trying to live day-to-day lives, is not interested in genuine knowledge, but is more about “changing reality rather than seeing it for what. Yuval Noah Harari addresses the main challenges human society will face in the years to come in his book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. The author discusses the nature of truth and how its not quite as clear or simple as it once was. ![]() ![]() He also suggests that another factor defining human choice is shared experiences with groups of like-minded persons, adding that the influence of thinking and reacting as a group tends to overwhelm rational perspectives and thoughts. The key message in these book summary: In this century of constant technological and political upheaval, we can prepare ourselves for the future by. This is because, he says, history shows that humans have tended to react based on emotions, and on deductive reactions based on emotions. Part IV is entitled “Truth.” Chapter 15, which begins Part IV, is titled “Ignorance,” and subtitled “You Know Less than You Think.” The author begins this chapter with the contention that the liberalism’s beliefs in the ultimate power of the rational mind and of individuality are essentially fallacies. ![]()
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