The Politics of Consciousness
The MIT Press eBooks December 16, 2025 Yuval Noah Harari
The author argues that science's failure to understand consciousness is the most significant gap in the scientific worldview, and that this gap is becoming dangerously consequential in the 21st century. Because humanity is gaining the ability to re-engineer life without comprehending consciousness, there is a risk of misusing this power in terrible ways. The text presents consciousness as the key to understanding life itself.