Sapiens: How Human Intelligence Came About and Why We Are Different / Sapiens: cómo surgió la inteligencia humana y por qué somos diferentes
Sapiens: How Human Intelligence Came About and Why We Are Different From the Cognitive Revolution to Shared Fictions: Intelligence, Consciousness, and Cooperation on a Large Scale. Why us? The first question that the book tries to clarify is this, why us? What made Homo sapiens dominate the planet against stronger or faster species? The answer that Harari proposes in Sapiens is as simple as it is profound: we don't just think better; we think together . Our superpower is the symbolic language that allows us to imagine, coordinate and cooperate on a large scale with strangers. In this article, I review the key to that advantage— shared fictions —and its implications for leaders and teams... and for what is to come. Before continuing with the book, analysis of the book, I think it is necessary to understand what the concept of symbolic language is: Symbolic language is the human ability to use arbitrary and shared signs (words, numbers, icons, symbols) to refer to...