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Finally finished this book. The book set out to get me to question the morality of humanity and technology as we continue to advance and yearn for more. Technology has indeed deeply ingrained itself into our daily lives. I wish the book had more of a scientific or historic undertone rather than that of pessimism. otherwise a good book.

The concept of computer running our lives and free will no longer being truly a thing because the machines around us are always guiding us tends to ring home. I do have a hard time finding new music and articles that i wouldn't normally read because of algorithms

The book goes on for a while about religion. primarily how its holding us back and many religions are anti-technology. which at the start its alright, but begins to feel like the author has a vendetta against religion. Thankfully he delves into more interesting discussion. I'm rather fond of this idea of 2 hemispheres of our brain and how they interact with our world; influencing our answers.

The Author presents a valid point on the need to separate what religion provides us with vs what science helps us with. while science presents answers to logical problems. religion fill the void of ethical problems.

the author brings a lot of points on how theres no measurable way to determine how human society is governed and fuctions, but proceeds to site multiple ways that we are governend. his examples often seem to step on themselves. Comparing the ruling phearoh of Egypt to a modern hospital seems disconnected. like macro managment vs micro manegment.

The book brings up interesting points. Does power in mass society live in our beliefs? As soon as we no longer believe in something does that take away all its meaning and belonging?

Chapter 3 is a lot better then the second. This chapter more into the validity of what is consciousness. How we are only now reconizing animals as sentient beings. Thus using them in further ethical experiments to understand free thinking vs natural habits.

The book is starting to pick up. had a bit of a slow where it felt like it was repeating the same point a little too much, but starts getting into the reality of existance.

The book seems a little repatative at the start, but has really been diving into a dark truth that i think we call can relate too. The whole living longer requiring high level of satisfaction and how humanity has coped with the realities of death is astonishing.