Carlos Salcedo

“Natural selection would thus smile on brains as they grew more adept at social living while rolling its eyes when listening to their obsessive storytelling”
― Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

“What would it mean for humans to live in a world where catchy melodies, scientific theories, technical tools, political manifestos and even religious myths are shaped by a non-human alien intelligence that knows how to exploit with super human efficiency the weaknesses, biases and addictions of the human mind?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, NEXUS: A Brief History of Infomation Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Volume.1) [Japanese Edition]

“We emerge from laws that, as far as we can tell, are timeless, and yet we exist for the briefest moment of time. We are guided by laws that operate without concern of destination, and yet we constantly ask ourselves where we are headed. We are shaped by laws that seem no to require and underlying rationale, and yet we persistenly seek meaning and purpose”
― Brian Greene, Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

“Jews and Muslims, acting on religious beliefs and backed up by nuclear capabilities, are poised to engange history's worst-ever massacre of human beings, over a rock”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI