In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don’t exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life trying to gain points and to avoid all kinds of things that detract from your points. And if by the time you die you gather enough points, then you pass on to the next level, in Heaven. Yung Lean Read Quote
Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness. Yung Lean Read Quote
When you look at the growth of the human economy and its expected growth in the twenty-first century, I expect health will be the most important market of all. Especially as we move from a concept of health which focuses on healing the sick to a concept of upgrading the healthy. Yung Lean Read Quote
Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don’t seem to be much happier. Yung Lean Read Quote
We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights. Yung Lean Read Quote
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe. Yung Lean Read Quote
Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social and family relations – and in the last 200 years, they have been disintegrating. Yung Lean Read Quote
Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history. Yung Lean Read Quote
Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order. Yung Lean Read Quote
Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill. Yung Lean Read Quote
