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Book Club And Reading List

Done: Becoming- Michelle Obama Alias Grace- Margaret Atwood 1Q84- part 1,2,3 - Haruki Murakami Men without Women- Haruki Murakami All the light we cannot see  Brain- the story of You Phantoms in the Mind- Re Read Homo Deus How will you Measure your life Reading List: Clear Light of Day The book of Why. Life 3.0 Stories of your life Exhalation  Atlas Shrugged -re read

Homo Deus : Notes

      Homo Deus is an interesting intersection of economics, politics, history, psychology , evolutionary biology and spirituality. The account starts with a summary of human life before showing a projection of what the future could hold but with a disclaimer relieving the author of any obligations, just in case a different future unfolds!! ;)       The disclaimer is quite interesting in revealing the paradox of historic knowledge (I love paradoxes!!):  " Knowledge that does not change behavior is useless, but knowledge that does change behavior loses relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course and faster our knowledge becomes outdated ". ( I am compelled to contrast this with the  Oogway quote: " O ne often meets his  destiny  on the road he takes to avoid it ")       Yuvah predicts that the human agenda for future would be centred around the below 3 points and concludes that the same technology

Unconsolable depression or Ultimate Liberation?

"What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with  delusions of grandeur" - Ayn Rand "Humanity is a thin layer of bacteria on a ball of mud hurtling through the void. I think if there was a god, he would've given up on us long ago. He gave us a paradise and we used everything up. We dug up every ounce of energy and burned it. We consume and excrete, use and destroy. Then we sit here on a neat little pile of ashes, having squeezed anything of value out of this planet, and we ask ourselves, "Why are we here?" You wanna know what I think your purpose is? It's obvious. You're here, along with the rest of us, to speed the entropic death of this planet. To service the chaos. We're maggots eating a corpse" -West World