Today in class we discussed Dostoyevsky’s idea of the
greatest human advantage and the unpredictability of human behavior. Today’s
lecture made me think a lot about why humans be have the way they do, like the
idea of cigarettes, people who smoke cigarettes know they’re harmful but consciously
decide to continue. The human tendency to behave irrational goes against the
laws of nature and science, which are supposed to be able to calculate
everything and give a logical answer to every question. However, if humans so
often and easily act against the laws of nature doesn't this break down the
wall that is science. Do we not leave ourselves floating in infinite space if
the wall we have created cannot explain why we act the way we do? I think that as much as humans want to have a
wall to lean on and comfort them, no wall can withstand the power of human
consciousness. One point mentioned in class today that I found particularly interesting
was that it’s easy to predict the actions of the masses, but nearly impossible
to predict the actions of a single person. This paradox perfectly describes the
reality of predicting human behavior.
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