On the Aubrey Marcus Podcast, join Dr. Marc Gafni as he critically examines the fundamental errors in Yuval Noah Harari’s assertions that stories, human rights, and human purpose are mere fictions, figments of our imagination.

In this enlightening discussion, Dr, Marc Gafni—in a fierce and funny tour de force—dismantles the grim assumptions presented in both Harari’s adult and children’s literature, aiming to set the record straight and introduce a new Story of Value. In Marc’s words, “ Value is Real, and, Value is Not Hard to Find, Value is Impossible to Avoid”. Embark on this profound exploration of both Gafni and Harari’s works like never before. This conversation is a game-changer, illuminating the fundamental principles and values that govern the cosmos and our personal lives.

• In **Part 1**, Marc clarifies the concepts of meaning and value.
• In **Part 2**, he exposes Harari’s perspective on human rights, artificial intelligence, and his claims regarding the authority of science.
• In **Part 3**, Marc imparts the powerful insight that there are stories of value that are real, and that the most important one is a love story, and that reality itself is—at its core —a love story.

* 0:00:00 Introduction

00:00:43 The Chilling Effect of Yuval Harari

00:03:20 – A New Model to have a Conversation

00:06:30 – Totalitarianism and Freedom

00:18:18 – Part I – Meaning and Value

00:27:11 – A New Story of Value

00:33:53 – Meaning and Value are not Mass Delusion

00:39:54 – Why this Matters

00:55:14 – Premodern, Modern and Postmodern Value

01:00:49 – Evolution of Value

01:07:31 – Harari’s Hijacking Science

01:09:41 – Part II – Science, Rights and Artificial Intelligence

01:10:10 – Ten Dogmas of Modern Science

01:14:17 – Human Rights are Real

01:23:40 – Artificial Intelligence

01:35:19 – Napoleon’s Five Goals

01:37:07 – Part III – Reality is a Love Story

01:41:57 – Telling Children Life has No Inherent Value

01:55:17 – Evolution is the Progressive Deepening of Intimacies

01:56:21 – The Intimate Universe

02:01:26 – Metacrisis and a New Story of Value

02:06:28 – Value is Real, Eternal and Evolving

02:07:32 – Interior Science Intimacy Equation of CosmoErotic Humanism

02:16:04 – Love Story Stands Against Totalitarianism

02:21:02 – Trust is Based on Shared Value

02:27:58 – We Need to Tell a New Story of Value

02:28:47 – Our Imagination is a Figment of God

02:32:19 – Credits

FIRST PRINCIPLES AND FIRST VALUES

Forty-Two Propositions on CosmoErotic Humanism, the Meta-Crisis, and the World to Come

by David J. Temple

AS THE META-CRISIS DEEPENS, THE FATE OF CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

First Principles and First Values is the tip of the spear in the fight for a humane future. Establishing frameworks for a new school of thought called CosmoErotic Humanism, the book is built around forty-two propositions that provide new source code for the future of planetary culture.

Like Europe in the early Renaissance, humanity is in a time between worlds, at a time between stories. First Principles and First Values contains blueprints for the bridge needed to cross from this world to the next.

“The position argued for in this book is of vital importance . . . it needs urgently to be read.”
IAIN McGILCHRIST, author of The Master and His Emissary