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Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari - Review

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  In the course of our evolution from being microbes, to amoebae, chimpanzee and finally Homo Sapiens, is it really our last station?  Yuval tries to trace the evolution of mankind and projects what’s the likely course of direction that humans would eventually take. He also tries to distinguish humans from animals from a varied standpoints to figure out what really made the difference. In terms of pure individual ability most of the dangerous animals or snakes would beat us down to death in no time. However, in terms of our collective ability, the animals just don’t stand a chance. Let’s first assess the similarities of human and animals from a couple of perspectives which is the objective and subjective reality that are inherent in both. Let me throw some light on the above-mentioned factors, objective reality is the same for all species like gravity, wind, fire, water and similar entities. But animals also experience subjective realities like anger, pain, lust and love. ...