Summary of Homo Deus

These processes spawn three core questions. The first asks whether organisms are just algorithms and whether life is just data processing in actuality. The second queries which of consciousness and intelligence has more value. The third inquires what will become of day-to-day existence, politics and society when non-conscious but extremely intelligent algorithms have more knowledge of us than we have of ourselves.

However, even though liberalism has tasted victory in the humanist religion wars, its success may lead to its downfall as well. When the world is able to see the complete potential of artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, free markets, liberalism and democracy may become outdated. In the current century, humans will attempt to acquire a divine, blissful and immortal state. However, this will shake the foundations of liberal humanism.

The cure to a life without meaning and law has been offered by humanism, a dogma that has revolutionized and taken control of the planet in the course of the past centuries. As far as this humanist religion is concerned, it is devoted to the cause of humanity and requires humanity to replace the role of God.

There is a basic difference between a religious person and a spiritual person. While the religious person would follow a route that would conform to the specified norms, the spiritual person would merely go through the process of feeling what is right and what is wrong and these feelings would guide them to be a better person. Religion in this sense becomes a rigid manual for a human as he/she tries to live a life that won’t lead them to eternal hell.

Holy Scriptures are the prominent in this context. The written word has started to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The powerful governments decide upon just how they would like to judge a certain subject and that is just how the subject would be judged till the written word exists in that particular form, for it is true that powerful entities modify the written word for the sake of better control. Holy Scriptures from different religions around the world are hence an issue because they allow some to get all the power and some to lose all of theirs and this creates a vicious cycle of losses.

ence is certainly moving forward. While it used to concern itself with keeping people alive despite infections and illnesses, now it has started to worry about keeping the human active for longer periods of time. The young human would hence ultimately gain a state where lives would be longer and more productive.

he main formula for knowledge in medieval Europe was Scriptures x Logic = Knowledge. The scientific formula was Empirical Data x Mathematics = Knowledge. However, the formula offered by humanism for knowledge is Experiences x Sensitivity = Knowledge.

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Also, among the several threats encountered by techno-humanists, lies the consideration that techno-humanism also validates the will of humans, approaching it as the nail bearing the weight of the whole cosmos.

umans need to update their minds if they wish to stay relevant since intelligence is decoupling from the phenomenon of consciousness and non-conscious intelligence is going through speedy progress