I’ve seen happy people in terrible places and I’ve seen miserable people in beautiful places. I argue that the conversations that we’re apart of matters much more than where we are in the physical world. Google exists in the world of conversation and because of that, we could destroy the things that represent Google in the real world, and Google could still exist. This little thought experiment is fun because it highlights the fallacies in thinking that we live in a purely physical and tangible world. It might be a different company, but it could still very well be Google as we know it. If we replaced all the people who worked for Google with a whole new batch of people, would Google disappear? No, not really. If we were to destroy the Google headquarters, would Google disappear? No, it wouldn’t because we could rebuild it. In Sapiens, Harari brings up Google to illustrate this point. Let me explain using businesses as an example.īusinesses in society are not physical entities, but a conversation we are having with one another. We experience our lives as a narrative, a conversation, but we also create things external to us in that conversational world. If anything, the world of conversation is more real than the tangible world.įrom my experience and observations, unless overridden by conscious free will, the human being primarily lives in the world of conversation. I like to think of this “imaginary” world as the world of conversation, speech, or logos rather than “imaginary.” Referring to this world as imaginary carries implications that it’s not real. Yuval talks about this idea of human beings living in two worlds simultaneously the real tangible world and the “imaginary” world of conversation. That combined with our unprecedented cognitive abilities makes us the most powerful creatures on earth.Įverything we do on this planet is created by us and our ability to communicate through complex language. That gives us a huge advantage over the other species. Homo sapiens were the only human species that were capable of communicating on a massive scale. Harari argues that is it our unique ability to communicate through complex language. Us, the homo sapiens, end up dominating the planet.īut why? What makes homo sapiens the dominant human species? In this timeline, we see different human species appear and either evolve or die out. It starts from matter and energy appearing marking the dawn of physics and takes us all the way to the present and into a potential future. In Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, renowned Israeli historian, Yuval Noah Harari, provides a beautiful timeline of history. Similar to attention, speech is highly overlooked. This post is going to focus on another powerful aspect of the hero of heroes, speech. I specifically brought up The Osiris Myth and how that story illustrates the power of attention. In my last post, I bring up the idea of analyzing hero myths for commonalities in order to find traits that would bring us success in any pursuit we choose. “A problem well put is half-solved.” John Dewey (1859 – 1952) An Invisible World
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