(Q1648)
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Humankind's immense ability to give meaning to its actions and thoughts is what has enabled its many achievements.
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Homo sapiens gives meaning to the world
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Humanity is separated from animals by humans' ability to believe in these intersubjective constructs that exist only in the human mind and are given force through collective belief.
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Since the language revolution some 70,000 years ago, humans have lived within an "intersubjective reality", such as countries, borders, religion, money and companies, all created to enable large-scale, flexible cooperation between different individual human beings.
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Harari argues that humanism is a form of religion that worships humankind instead of a god. It puts humankind and its desires as a top priority in the world, in which humans themselves are framed as the dominant beings.
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Technological developments have threatened the continued ability of humans to give meaning to their lives; Harari suggests the possilibity of the replacement of humankind with the super-man, or "homo deus" (human god) endowed with abilities such as eternal life.
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Humankind's immense ability to give meaning to its actions and thoughts is what has enabled its many achievements but this is under threat through technological developments.
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