Tag: Yuval Harari
Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?
“Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism.”
Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics
Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief proselytizers.
That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75
The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards.
Human Nature — New Book from David Berlinski Skewers Illusion of Evolutionary Progress in History
Berlinski schools Steven Pinker, the famed Harvard cognitive psychologist, on the relevant math, reminding him that “poorly defined problems very often lead to absurd solutions.”
David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy
Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism?