Is world peace possible?

Steven Pinker, a psychologist and cognitive scientist at Harvard University, believes that the wars between countries can be fully considered to be a means of slave auctions, debtor prisons and other barbaric customs I will.

He believes that there have been many violent cases all over the world since 1945 and we believe there are more ways to kill each other, but we are not increasingly witnessing wars among the countries. Not only the war of the lowest level in history, the murder rate is much lower than medieval times, domestic violence and other problems are no longer considered acceptable.

At a recent San Francisco singularity summit, he talked to the BBC about how we tend to be violent in the future, but how tend to we be peaceful?

There is a part of the brain that drives us to cause violence, such as a desire for revenge, a desire for tribalism, or a search for control. But the same skull is full of motivation to prevent excluding violence such as sympathy and reason. We regard violence as a problem that needs to be resolved, not competition for winning.

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Through globalization, peace in the world can see opportunities in the world without war. People are increasingly aware that the world economy is very intertwined, it is a coherent whole, and large-scale armed conflict has a detrimental effect on the prosperity of individual countries. People are increasingly aware that negotiations and cooperation create more benefits, thereby causing war. More and more people are now aware that they can share the earth with each other without an armed conflict. If the number of people trying to believe in negotiations, cooperation, more sincere food and water distribution, and reasonable solutions to the world's problems increases, the change in this way of thinking can accelerate further.

Peace in the world is possible The power of "people's power" is increasingly strong, coupled with the possibility of being provided by the Internet, it has seen the opportunity of world peace. Because of the presence of the Internet, contact with people all over the world is self-evident. With improved media, the Internet, and mobility, people are guaranteed to participate anywhere in the world. The power to seek a fair and sincere world is steadily growing. Today 's hero is no longer a conqueror like Alexander the Great and Napoleon, but a ruler of peace like Mandela or Coffee Nan.

The establishment of these trade barriers was an introduction to the First World War and the Second World War. The basic problem is that cooperation and peace are possible when the world is seen as positive. The world after the industrial revolution is greatly positive, and mutual exchanges and trade have brought about all growth - not to mention the overall peace. During the first globalization and the postwar era European concert era was the most peaceful era in history. In other words, as long as the pie grows, everyone will be happy regardless of distribution. However, growth at the time began to stagnate, things became ugly. The world has become zero. It was the world where only "winners" and "losers" existed, and the authorities were given the power to promise to their people "to win again and win in unprecedented manner".