Here are two radically opposed views on the relation to finitude which is supposed to characterize the time.
First that of Yuval Noah Harari, who declared in
L'Obs
last April how
“the contemporary world has been shaped by the conviction that humans can deceive and even overcome death.
This change in attitude was a real revolution.
For scientists, death is not a divine decree, it is a simple technical problem.
Yet science is convinced that for any technical problem there is a technical solution.
No need to wait for the return of the Messiah to overcome death, a few scientists are enough in a laboratory ”.
The author of
Sapiens
seems to me to be swimming deliriously here.
First, because the transhumanist project to which he refers is still only a pipe dream.
In addition, it could not influence contemporary history in any way, since 99.9% of our fellow citizens simply never heard of it during the 20th century.
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