Book Club: Nexus, by Yuval Noah Harari - Power, Truth & Information (Why Your Reality Is Not Your Truth And Why More Information Is Bad For Society)

It's Book Club, Live! Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson are reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus, trying to understand and get their heads around information networks, power, truth, reality and AI in real time. What is humanity's relationship with information? What even is information? When is a pigeon really a dove? From ancient myths to AI, they explore how our networks of cooperation shape societies—for better or worse, according to Yuval and his book Nexus. The book club is live and unscripted. Mark and Jeremy won't necessarily agree with Harari's provocative ideas - and certainly can't articulate like the Yuval - but it will be entertaining, insightful and leave you with a few questions of your own. And if you feel like taking it further, chapter 2 will be live next Friday. Bring your book. Join the show. Please enjoy the show

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Timestamps

TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - Welcome: Disruptors and Curious Minds, CEOs, Founders, and Book Lovers (00:50) - Revisiting Previous Books in the Thinking On Paper Book Club (01:08) - Exploring the Brief History of Information Networks (01:33) - Debate: Dust Jackets on Books - Yes or No? (02:40) - Insights from the Nexus Prologue (03:08) - Is Yuval Noah Harari’s Perspective Too Dramatic? (04:54) - The Naïve View of Information Explained (05:58) - The Growing Spectre of Artificial Intelligence (06:48) - Understanding Delusional Networks in Human History (10:03) - Exploring the Relationship Between Truth, Wisdom, and Power (13:52) - Yuval Noah Harari's Definition: What Is Information? (16:58) - The Story of Cher Ami: Information as the Transfer of a Story (17:36) - Most Information Does Not Represent Anything – What Does That Mean? (19:49) - Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Dove of Peace (21:37) - Why Truth Is Not the Same as Reality (28:00) - Music as a Medium of Information and Communication (29:26) - AI-Generated Art and the Importance of Micro Decisions (31:07) - Music, Silence, and the Information You Don't Say (34:57) - Information in the Context of Quantum Mechanics

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