New Religions of the 21st Century | Yuval Harari | Talks at Google

Techno-Religions and Silicon Prophets: Will the 21st century be shaped by hi-tech gurus or by religious zealots – or are they the same thing? Inner voice- the source of all...Liberalism...the feelings of individual...China (16+)..radical Islam (17+)...the most important question in 21st century economics is (18+) : what do we need people for in the economy? Biotechnology? ...biological gaps opening between reach and poor, and homosapiens splits into different species.....Traditional religions have nothing to say about these questions (21)...historical changes are made by few...Vedas (23)...''the Pope is never wrong'' dogma-Pope Pius IX (24)...A few engineers, few technicians and bankers and financiers in Manchester and Liverpool and Bermigham they changed the world (25+) ...Marx and Engles (26). Lenin and Trotsky , they studied the technology and economy of their own age (27+). Lenin: communism is power to the workesr's councils, the Soviets, plus electrification of the entire country. Communism was the first techno-religion /or ideology with earth promises(29)..Communism changed the rules of the game (30+).. the best equivalent of Sillicon Valley in the 13th century / Middle ages wa the Vatican...feminism vs patriarchic society..What did religions discovered in the last centuries? the problem of Liberalism today.in front of the Life sciences which reject individualism (36): all animals, including humans, are not individuals. , they don't have souls, they don't have any essence, innercore/ they are basically a collection of biochemical algorithms...These biochemical algorithms are not free..there is no such thing as freedom. Feelings? Probabilities for survival or reproduction...feelings the result of very complex biochemical algorithms that natural selection has evolved and selected for millions upon millions of generations until they come to us. ...Our feelings at present are the best algorithmes in the universe. (47+) But,,,what will happen when I create an algorithm that knows me better , that understands me and my feeligs better than I can understand myself? the authority will shift to the outside algorithms...Liberalism will change (nor collaps violently) . Listen of Google, to Amazon,....They understand how you feel better....Better answers than from your feelings or the Bible... data religion..the supreme source of authority and meaning in the world..moving to the wisdom of the external algorithms for making selections. How electrochemical signals /patters can turn into subjective experience, to consiousness?