Carlos Salcedo

“In other words, a selection pressure too weak to be detectable by field geneticists is capable of yielding major evolutionary change so fast that it could look instantaneous to geologists.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

“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

“Many more people commit suicide due to shame and guilt than due to economic distress. Even when people kill themselves after being fired from their job or after their business goes bankrupt, they are usually pushed over the edge by the social humiliation it involves rather than by the economic hardship per se.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“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]