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A Story of Stories
Under scientism, humans are just robots running programs—either the ones dictated by our genes, or destructive pathogens like spirituality. However, by refusing to understand how meaning-making is a subtle community project related to the ways we live together, this orthodox scientism denies any scheme of things where human agency—hand in hand with
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But it also did something more. Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Comment Homo sapiens a-t-il réussi à franchir ce seuil critique pour finalement fonder des cités de plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’habitants et des empires de centaines de millions de sujets ? Le secret réside probablement dans l’apparition de la fiction. De grands nombres d’inconnus peuvent coopérer avec succès en croyant à des mythes communs. T
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Domesticated type – has the ability to coordinate much larger groups of people than the wild type, and he does this by taking consciousness and culture and making a move that simplifies both of them, while maintaining a substantial portion of their capacity to generate synergistic capabilities, and enabling social systems to scale. We move fro... See more