By: Wolfgang Seidel-Guyenot

Wolfgang Seidel-Guyenot
Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:33:18 +0000

Is Yuval Harari warning about the bio-engineering of human consciousness or is he raving about it? Yuval Harari is something of a mystery to me. Some see him as the personification of evil, the WEF's minion satan. He had made a few comments that are worrying, even disturbing. For example, he stated soberly and unemotionally that in the future people would merge with technology and that soon the majority of people would be "redundant". He didn't say this enthusiastically or like he thought it was great, more like it was inevitable. He is undoubtedly a very intelligent man. A historian, by the way, and neither a computer scientist nor an economist. You can clearly see a certain misanthropic streak in his book "Sapiens", but I and many people I know also have this misanthropic streak occasionally. For me it would perhaps be more appropriate to describe myself as an "anthroposkeptic". I see humanity with a certain skepticism, I am fully aware of the wrong paths that humanity has taken and still takes. But I still like this strange, sometimes desperate, sometimes incredibly cruel, but sometimes also incredibly lovable and wonderfully creative species of Sapiens, yet in a way I can't explain myself. However, I think the mistakes we have all made, the destruction of the environment, the constant wars and acts of violence that humans wage and commit, do not lie in an inherent malice of the Sapiens species. And I don't see any reason to replace this species with anything else like the "Transhuman", "Posthuman" or Homo sapiens +++. Those mistakes are - in my opinion - the result of processes that humanity has committed since the beginning of its rise to become the dominant species on this planet, mainly because they were somehow enticed or persuaded into by a few unscrupulous individuals with incredible power. So what does Yuval Harari want to say. Does he want to warn and says subliminally and barely audibly "Stop, stop, otherwise your future will be terrible" or does he say "You deserve it so much, you have to disappear as a species and make way for a "new human species" that is transhuman and will leave you and your inadequacy "behind"? Who knows him at all, who understands him at all? This leptosome, delicate man who always looks kind of sad and melancholic and says things that make some people rage and others applaud..