Homo Deus

If we ever have the power to engineer death and pain out of our system, that same power will probably be sufficient to engineer our system in almost any manner we like.

The average American thus uses sixty times more energy than the average Stone Age hunter-gatherer. Is the average American sixty times happier?

If you want to see philosophy in action, pay a visit to a robo-rat laboratory.

American lives have greater intrinsic value than Afghan lives?

the life of a child in the mountains of Tora Bora is considered every bit as sacred as the life of a child in Beverly Hills.

We want to believe that human lives really are superior in some fundamental way.

the soul journeys on towards salvation or damnation.

laboratory experiments confirm the accuracy of one part of the myth: just as monotheist religions say, animals have no souls.

the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls.

the mind is a flow of subjective experiences, such as pain, pleasure, anger and love.