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The post-natural world of tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari, Slavoj Žižek

Philosophy For Our Times

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The Consequences of Manipulating a System

When you try to amplify something that it usually has so many other unintended consequences. It's much easier to manipulate a system than to understand the full consequences of what you're doing. Even forget about bodies and brains. We twick something in our brain, in our mind, in our deane because we have some goal. But what will be the other unintended consequences? It's beyond us, especially because we don't understand the human mind. And it's extremely dangerous to start manipulating something so precious before you really understand what you'redoing. I think when she setet, the problem is not ras we will be enslaved by machines but that dhis enslavement will even strengthen the division

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