Thursday Post

       Class discussion today covered ‘advantageous advantage’ and how the idea of free will shapes what we do. I thought the narrator’s point is extremely applicable in society; the ability to act against reason and logic may at time cause the worst to occur, yet it is also specifically why we have made all the advancements that contribute to the current generation. For this reason, I was particularly interested in Mr. Shapiro’s comment that our free will is why we’ve evolved while zebras are still the exact same as they’d been decades prior. It is quite ironic that the human race is advancing and evolving rapidly precisely because we act in potentially self-harming ways; without free will, people would just become disheartened and lazy, in a sense. With everything easily explained, there would be no motivation to do anything and would just bring us to living the same tedious life –this is why the narrator says exercising free will is basically what helps us really live.