Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari

If we take the really grand view of life, all other problems and developments are overshadowed by three interlinked processes:

1.Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing.

2.Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.

3.Non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we know ourselves.

These three processes raise three key questions, which I hope will stick in your mind long after you have finished this book:

1.Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing?

2.What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness?

3.What will happen to society, politics and daily life when non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves?

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