11 korrents from this recording
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0:02:18 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsAnd I think we can say that the dominant ideology of the world at present is liberal humanism, or in short, liberalism. Liberalism is a worldview, an ideology, that thinks that a source of all authority and all meaning in the universe is the individual human, the individual of the specie Homo sapiens.
0:16:34 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
China is an economic giant but an ideological dwarf with no alternative to the liberal package
Their wordsHowever, even though China is definitely an economic giant, it is still an ideological dwarf.
0:20:43 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsNow with the advent of biotechnology we are facing a possibility, it's not a prophecy, it's not certain, but there is a possibility of real biological gaps opening and Homo sapiens splitting into different biological castes, or even different species.
0:28:58 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Communism was the first techno-religion, promising paradise here on Earth through technology
Their wordscommunism was the first techno-religion, a religion or ideology if you prefer that promises roughly the same things that were promised by the traditional religions.
0:31:05 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
In the last 200 years the traditional religions turned from a creative force into a reactive one
Their wordsThey were transformed essentially from a creative force into a reactive force.
0:35:50 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThe basic problem of liberalism today in the early 21st century is that the life sciences are telling us that it is nonsense.
0:42:22 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsWhat we call emotions, sensations, feelings, are simply biochemical algorithms that take all that information, all the huge amounts of information from outside and inside, and within a split second reach a certain decision, a certain probability.
0:48:28 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthe most important decisions about our bodies during our lifetime will not to be taken by our feelings. They will be taken by external algorithms, algorithms that understand our own internal systems and that have statistics about millions upon millions of other humans
0:52:47 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo we see the potential rise of a new kind of religion, a data religion. If previously God was in the center of events and then humans were in the center of events. Now data or information becomes the supreme source of authority and of meaning in the world.
1:02:31 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsSo you don't need the truth to take over the world.
1:05:02 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsWhat is even more important to realize is that not only we don't know what was the situation 20,000 years ago, we don't have at present any good explanation for patriarchy.