Quotes About Humanity

Baraj in?a edip nehirlerin ak???n? durdurmay? biliyorduk ama bedensel ya?lanma nas?l durdurulur bilmiyorduk.

Como bomberos en un mundo sin fuego, en el siglo XXI la humanidad necesita plantearse una pregunta sin precedentes: ¿qué vamos a hacer con nosotros?

Today, the global average is only 1.5 per cent, taking war and crime together. During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence – and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars

La maggior parte dei mammiferi escono dal grembo come la terracotta smaltata esce dal forno – ogni tentativo di rimodellarla manderebbe tutto in frantumi. Gli umani escono dal grembo come la pasta di vetro dalla fornace. Possono essere rigirati, stirati e modellati con un sorprendente grado di libertà.

For thousands of years the answer to this question remained unchanged. The same three problems preoccupied the people of twentieth-century China, of medieval India and of ancient Egypt. Famine, plague and war were always at the top of the list.

O bien uno cree en un Dios único y omnipotente o bien cree en dos poderes opuestos, ninguno de ellos omnipotente. Aún así los humanos poseen una maravillosa capacidad para creer en contradicciones.

The second cognitive revolution, dreamed up by techno-humanists, might do the same to us, producing human cogs who communicate and process data far more effectively than ever before, but who can hardly pay attention, dream or doubt. For millions of years we were enhanced chimpanzees. In the future, we may become oversized ants.

Después de haber reducido la mortalidad debida al hambre, la enfermedad y la violencia, ahora nos dedicaremos a superar la vejez e incluso la muerte. Después de haber salvado a la gente de la miseria abyecta, ahora nos dedicaremos a hacerla totalmente feliz. Y después de haber elevado a la humanidad por encima del nivel bestial de las luchas por la supervivencia, ahora nos dedicaremos a ascender a los humanos a dioses, y a transformar Homo sapiens en Homo Deus.

Yet can the economic pie grow indefinitely? Every pie requires raw material and energy. Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo Sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?

Tamamen bilimsel bir bak?? aç?s?yla bilebildi?imiz kadar?yla, insan ya?am?n?n hiçbir anlam? yoktur. ?nsanlar belirli bir amac? olmayan ve körlemesine ilerleyen evrimsel süreçlerin sonucudur ve faaliyetlerimiz ilahi bir kozmik plan?n parças? de?ildir.

De repente damos muestra de un interés sin precedentes por la suerte de las llamadas formas de vida inferiores, quizá porque estamos a punto de convertirnos en una de ellas.

Açl?k çeken çocuklar?n özgürlü?ünden söz edilemez

To the best of our knowledge, only Sapiens can cooperate in very flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. This concrete capability – rather than an eternal soul or some unique kind of consciousness – explains our mastery of planet Earth.

Having reduced mortality from starvation, disease and violence, we will now aim to overcome old age and even death itself. Having saved people from abject misery, we will now aim to make them positively happy. And having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods, and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.

Durante nuestra estancia infinitesimalmente breve en la diminuta mota que es nuestro planeta, nos preocupamos y nos pavoneamos de esto o de aquello, y después ya no se oye más de nosotros.

good hunters, and apparently took care of their sick and infirm. (Archaeologists have discovered the bones of Neanderthals who lived for many years with severe physical handicaps, evidence that they were cared for by their relatives.)

There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no lawn, no justice outside the common imagination of human beings

Simultaneously, scientists have studied the mental states of people considered to be healthy and normative. However, most relevant researches have been conducted on people from Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies, who do not constitute a representative sample of humanity. The study of the human mind has so far assumed that Homo sapiens is Homer Simpson. A

if humankind doesn't annihilate itself meanwhile – the Scientific Revolution might prove itself far greater than a mere historical revolution. It may turn out to be the most important biological revolution since the appearance of life on earth.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

Why not go back to God's drawing board and design a better Sapiens?

The most likely answer is the very thing that makes the devate possible: Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language

The system may prefer downgraded humans not because they would possess any superhuman knacks, but because they would lack some really disturbing human qualities that hamper the system and slow it down.

Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough to pass along the parasite, it cares little about the condition of its host. In just this fashion, cultural ideas live inside the minds of humans. They