The Politics of Consciousness | video lecture with Yuval Noah Harari

Greetings from Lebanon. I'm a fan of yours An amazing book of yours was banned in my country only because the author was Israeli, but I managed to get one from abroad and read it. Your philosophical way of tackling differences encourages the readers/listeners to workout their minds. With all of my consciousness; I'd like to say that I'm happy to subscribe to your educational channel. Thanks for the great lecture :) Shalom :)

Mr Harari is the gift that keeps on giving. Insights that blow open thinking in those willing to let in new information. Thanks for you dedication and work to help humanity break through our current prejudices and thinking..

Dr. Harari, thank you for sharing this powerful lecture and keeping it real! You speak to my heart and mind's eye. I've always thought that I was deficient in "consciousness". Your lecture reveals that I am conscious and consciousness. Highly empathic and this world seems so incorrect. It's like humanity's folly of ignorance seems so ridiculous and depressing to the point of my suffering. The inequality and exploitation of the poor, along with the total disregard for "Earth's Rights and Species Rights. I have held these feelings from an early age. Asking too many questions about "why is this happening?". I have been called a native sociologist. I've been told I "demand the impossible" of organization, institutions, and humanity. Ethical behavior is not impossible. Treat people the way they want to be treated. Have forethought about your actions, and their possible outcomes. Dr. Harari, thank you again for sharing this lecture and validating my consciousness and my ascribed status as Salt-of-the-Earth Ozark Queerbilly ~/*\~

כל פעם שאני שומע אותך אני מתוודע לעומקים ותפיסות חדשות על המציאות, המוסר והחשיבה שלנו. תודה רבה לך! אתה גאווה לאומית!

I've never not learned something new after watching one of Yuval's lectures.

Tengo que dar gracias al algoritmo y don Yuval Noah Harari porque me ha reventado las neuronas. Mi consciencia no puede describir lo que siente en estos momentos. Sentimientos vs inteligencia, la inteligencia nos hará libres. Internet nos hará libres porque cada vez somos más los que empezamos a ver la realidad como es, neutra. Son nuestros sentidos y la forma de interpretar que tienen que suframos cuando cada día es un regalo. La suerte de vivir, la suerte de poder amar. Si este comentario ha llegado hasta ti es porque hablas mi lengua y sabes de lo que estoy hablando porque a ti también te pasa, porque el mismo algoritmo que nos ha enseñado este video, porque esa idea que Harari se le ocurrió "I am gonna speak about the politics of consiosness" es una muestra de que todo está conectado y que lo mejor no está por llegar. Saludos de un colombiano-sevillano que vive en Escocia.

Yuvaaaaal Noaaaaah Haraaaari, you are such an influence on the development of my consciousness.

I really enjoyed the medium-length video essay format. Or at least it will be something to chew on until the next book comes out ;) Keep up the good work!

Yuval is all over the place on this one. Not his usual incisive & clear commentary we expect of him. Focus Yuval. Focus on consciousness.

thanks harari, loved your explanations.

Amazing, your ability to simplify give tools to all people to think about very complicated issues. "Consciousness is the capacity to suffer" - simple, brilliant. Please write more books, and think more thoughts.

Whoever watching this , we all are many years ahead from our present generation

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness." Planck

Thank you for asking the right questions! I'd like to share a few thoughts on this topic. The crucial point here is to define suffering. What is the source of suffering? Can other animals have comparable suffering as we have? Can aliens have a similar sense of suffering as we have? As I understand, suffering has a biochemical source. Our brains have neuromediators and receptors to emerge the feeling of suffer that was evolutionary selected and allowed us to be those who we are. And may be here is the crucial point to extend the discussion with scientific socitety. Another interesting point in the discussion, that suffering depends not just on reality observing, but as a gap in between our understanding of reality (I call it 'the picture of the world'), observing reality, and our understanding of our role and abilities in each situation. This is the consciousness triangle. Moreover the suffering mostly come from our feeling that we can do nothing. In the most situations of suffering we underestimate our role and abilities. Most of us have terrible wrong understanding of who we are and what we can do. I believe philosophers and scientists together can do much more in this space, and here is the most unexplored territory. From practical perspective I found that each time I suffer, I ask myself what is my role, what I did to prevent the situation causes suffering, what can I do, and why I think I can't do more? This technique of reflection helped me a lot.

Interesting. Looking forward to Part II.

Yes, Yuval Noah Harari with bright way of thought

Thank you for this great lecture and even more thanks for not trying to sell something or including ads

The capacity to suffer must also include the capacity to enjoy, to love and sorry. There is an inherent capacity to know the difference of these and recognize one's place in its environment.

I believe,Yuval,that if it breathes, it has consciousness in one form or another. It is so much more than the ability to suffer in my head. I also believe you are the very essence of common sense and logic combined, and blessed with the best way to explain it. A note on AI, no matter how much intelligence we feed these robots or machines, for any period of time, they will never take the first breath, so, in summary, they will never have conscience ness.

Consciousness is being aware of yourself.