Book: 20241203 to 20250529, 2nd read, "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari
1st reading: https://chaojidigua.blogspot.com/2019/03/20180512-20171003-20180512-sapiens.html 2nd reading. Part One. The Cognitive Revolution 20241203 - 1. An Animal of No Significance Big brain is big burden. It's not that useful for individuals. But it's critical for large scale cooperation. 20241204 - 2. The Tree of Knowledge It's all about collative stories. Advertisements, money, juricial system, state, and even PUA. When "The Power of Now" says live in the present, does that help us not getting affected by those imagined stories? If we can choose not to accept those stories, can we avoid the negative side of them? What's the relationship between stories and game theory(and compound effect)? 20241206 - 3. A Day in the Life of Adam and Eve Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, there hasn’t been a single natural way of life for Sapiens. There are only cultural choices, from among a bewildering palette of possibilities. p53 This could be the meaning of live...