IT philosopher Yuval Noah Harari believes that humans have now become hackable animals, deterministically predictable given enough computing power. “Humans are now hackable animals. The idea that humans have this soul or spirit, they have free will and nobody knows what’s happening inside me – so whatever I choose whether in the election or in the supermarket, that’s my free will? That’s over.” “We humans should get used to the idea that we are no longer mysterious souls. We are now hackable animals. A system that understands us better than we understand ourselves can predict [and] manipulate our feelings and decisions, and can ultimately [decide] for us. By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself. Because once you can hack something, you can usually also engineer it.”
The Covid pandemic, he sees, as introducing “surveillance under the skin,” and he is not far wrong with some now advocating chips being implanted in human wrists for monitoring.
