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Yuval Harari

Geburtstag: 24. Februar 1976
Andere Namen: Юваль Ной Харари

Yuval Noah Harari ist ein israelischer Historiker. Er lehrt seit 2005 an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem und ist mit Forschungen zur Militärgeschichte und universalhistorischen Thesen hervorgetreten. Seine populärwissenschaftliche Monographie Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit wurde zu einem internationalen Bestseller. Harari schreibt regelmäßig Kolumnen für die Zeitung Haaretz. Wikipedia

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„Demokratie geht davon aus, dass menschliche Gefühle einen geheimnisvollen und grundsätzlichen »freien Willen« widerspiegeln, dass dieser »freie Wille« die letztgültige Quelle der Macht ist und dass manche Menschen zwar intelligenter als andere sein mögen, alle Menschen aber gleich frei sind.“

— Yuval Harari

Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lektionen für das 21. Jahrhundert. C.H.Beck, München 2018. S. 77. ISBN: 978 3 406 72778 8.
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„Gefühle sind (vielmehr) biochemische Mechanismen, die alle Säugetiere und Vögel nutzen, um rasch Wahrscheinlichkeiten des Überlebens und der Reproduktion zu berechnen. Gefühle beruhen nicht auf Intuition, Inspiration oder Freiheit - sie basieren auf Berechnung. … Gefühle sind somit nicht das Gegenteil von Vernunft - sie verkörpern evolutionäre Rationalität. … Dass Gefühle in Wirklichkeit Berechnungen sind, übersehen wir in der Regel, weil der rasante Rechenprozess weit unterhalb unserer Bewusstseinsschwelle abläuft.“

— Yuval Harari

Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lektionen für das 21. Jahrhundert. C.H.Beck, München 2018. S. 78 f. ISBN: 978 3 406 72778 8.
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„Moralische Empfindungen wie Wut, Schuld oder Vergebung gehen auf neuronale Mechanismen zurück, die entstanden sind, um die Zusammenarbeit in der Gruppe zu ermöglichen. … Gefühle sind somit nicht das Gegenteil von Vernunft - sie verkörpern evolutionäre Rationalität.“

— Yuval Harari

Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lektionen für das 21. Jahrhundert. C.H.Beck, München 2018. S. 79. ISBN: 978 3 406 872778 8.
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„Dass Gefühle in Wirklichkeit Berechnungen sind, übersehen wir in der Regel, weil der rasante Rechenprozess weit unterhalb unserer Bewusstseinsschwelle abläuft..., und deshalb glauben wir irrigerweise, unsre Angst vor Schlangen, unsere Wahl von Sexualpartnern oder unsere Ansichten über die Europäische Union seien das Ergebnis irgendeines mysteriösen »freien Willen«s. Yuval Noah Harari: 21 Lektionen für das 21. Jahrhundert.“

— Yuval Harari

C.H.Beck, München 2018. S. 79. ISBN: 978 3 406 872778 8.
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„In less than a hundred years the Germans organised themselves into six very different systems: the Hohenzollern Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the German Democratic Republic (aka communist East Germany), the Federal Republic of Germany (aka West Germany), and finally democratic reunited Germany. Of course the Germans kept their language and their love of beer and bratwurst. But is there some unique German essence that distinguishes them from all other nations, and that has remained unchanged from Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel?“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„Without criticising the liberal model, we cannot repair its faults or go beyond it. But please note that this book could have been written only when people are still relatively free to think what they like and to express themselves as they wish. If you value this book, you should also value the freedom of expression.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„Drinking lots of Coca-Cola will not make you young, will not make you healthy, and will not make you athletic – rather, it increases your chances of suffering from obesity and diabetes. Yet for decades Coca-Cola has invested billions of dollars in linking itself to youth, health and sports – and billions of humans subconsciously believe in this linkage.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„Of course, by 2033 many new professions are likely to appear, for example, virtual-world designers. But such professions will probably require much more creativity and flexibility than current run-of-the-mill jobs, and it is unclear whether forty-year-old cashiers or insurance agents will be able to reinvent themselves as virtual-world designers (try to imagine a virtual world created by an insurance agent!). And even if they do so, the pace of progress is such that within another decade they might have to reinvent themselves yet again. After all, algorithms might well outperform humans in designing virtual worlds too. The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.20“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

„Doubts about the existence of free will and individuals are nothing new, of course. More than 2,000 years ago thinkers in India, China and Greece argued that ‘the individual self is an illusion’. Yet such doubts don’t really change history much unless they have a practical impact on economics, politics and day-to-day life. Humans are masters of cognitive dissonance, and we allow ourselves to believe one thing in the laboratory and an altogether different thing in the courthouse or in parliament. Just as Christianity didn’t disappear the day Darwin published On the Origin of Species, so liberalism won’t vanish just because scientists have reached the conclusion that there are no free individuals.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

„Seventy thousand years ago, homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the following millennia it transformed itself into the master of the entire planet and the terror of the ecosystem. Today it stands on the verge of becoming a god, poised to acquire not only eternal youth, but also the divine abilities of creation and destruction.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

„Today more than ninety per cent of all large animals are domesticated. Consider the chicken, for example. Ten thousand years ago it was a rare bird confined to small niches of South Asia. Today billions of chickens live on almost every continent and island, bar Antarctica. The domesticated chicken is probably the most widespread bird in the annals of planet Earth. If you measure success in terms of numbers, chickens, cows and pigs are the most successful animals ever. Alas, domesticated species paid for their unparalleled collective success with unprecedented individual suffering.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari

Introduction to Animal Liberation

„Leaders are thus trapped in a double bind. If they stay in the centre of power, they will have an extremely distorted vision of the world. If they venture to the margins, they will waste too much of their precious time. And the problem will only get worse. In the coming decades, the world will become even more complex than it is today. Individual humans – whether pawns or kings – will consequently know even less about the technological gadgets, the economic currents, and the political dynamics that shape the world. As Socrates observed more than 2,000 years ago, the best we can do under such conditions is to acknowledge our own individual ignorance.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„For years I lived under the impression that I was the master of my life, and the CEO of my own personal brand. But a few hours of meditation were enough to show me that I hardly had any control of myself. I was not the CEO – I was barely the gatekeeper. I was asked to stand at the gateway of my body – the nostrils – and just observe whatever comes in or goes out. Yet after a few moments I lost my focus and abandoned my post.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„…Meanwhile in the USA paranoid Republicans have accused Barack Obama of being a ruthless despot hatching conspiracies to destroy the foundations of American society – yet in eight years of his presidency he barely managed to pass a minor health-care reform.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

„If we are willing to make such efforts in order to understand foreign cultures, unknown species and distant planets, it might be worth working just as hard in order to understand our own minds. And we had better understand our minds before the algorithms make our minds up for us.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the daily life of most humans ran its course within three ancient frames: the nuclear family, the extended family and the local intimate community.* Most people worked in the family business – the family farm or the family workshop, for example – or they worked in their neighbours’ family businesses. The family was also the welfare system, the health system, the education system, the construction industry, the trade union, the pension fund, the insurance company, the radio, the television, the newspapers, the bank and even the police.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

„Capitalism did not defeat communism because capitalism was more ethical, because individual liberties are sacred or because God was angry with the heathen communists. Rather, capitalism won the Cold War because distributed data processing works better than centralised data processing, at least in periods of accelerating technological change. The central committee of the Communist Party just could not deal with the rapidly changing world of the late twentieth century. When all data is accumulated in one secret bunker, and all important decisions are taken by a group of elderly apparatchiks, they can produce nuclear bombs by the cartload, but not an Apple or a Wikipedia.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

„When I think of the mystery of existence, I prefer to use other words, so as to avoid confusion. And unlike the God of the Islamic State and the Crusades – who cares a lot about names and above all about His most holy name – the mystery of existence doesn’t care an iota what names we apes give it.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„One would have thought that conservatives would care far more about the conservation of the old ecological order, and about protecting their ancestral lands, forests and rivers. In contrast, progressives could be expected to be far more open to radical changes to the countryside, especially if the aim is to speed up progress and increase the human standard of living. However, once the party line has been set on these issues by various historical quirks, it has become second nature for conservatives to dismiss concerns about polluted rivers and disappearing birds, while left-wing progressives tend to fear any disruption to the old ecological order.“

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— Yuval Noah Harari, buch 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

„At first sight, domesticated animals may seem much better off than their wild cousins and ancestors. Wild buffaloes spend their days searching for food, water and shelter, and are constantly threatened by lions, parasites, floods and droughts. Domesticated cattle, by contrast, enjoy care and protection from humans. People provide cows and calves with food, water and shelter, they treat their diseases, and protect them from predators and natural disasters. True, most cows and calves sooner or later find themselves in the slaughterhouse. Yet does that make their fate any worse than that of wild buffaloes? Is it better to be devoured by a lion than slaughtered by a man? Are crocodile teeth kinder than steel blades?“

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— Yuval Noah Harari

" Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/25/industrial-farming-one-worst-crimes-history-ethical-question", The Guardian, 25 Sept. 2011

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