This essay will argue why ‘free will’ can be one of the essential criteria to characterize humans, and examine conceivable contentions for ‘free will' to characterize humankind due to now having new innovation that regulates or sets our choices.
First of all, what does it mean to be a human or what makes human a human? A man belongs to a group of mammals, but unlike animals, he has a conscience, a clever man, sympathetic, respects his ancestors.
According to Yuval Noah Harari (“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” 2011), the main difference between humans and animals is that we have an imagination. We rule the world because no other animal can believe in what exists only in the imagination - the gods, the state, money or human rights. But the language of fiction allowed a man not just to surrender to the imagination, but to do it with the whole team. For instance, ants and bees, too, cooperate with huge teams, but they do it on strict, once and for all set rules, and only within their "family". In terms of wolves and chimpanzees, cooperation is built on much more flexible principles, but only with a small number of closely related relatives, whereas people can easily cooperate with any number of strangers. That's why the world is ruled by sapiens, ants pick up our scraps,
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However, sometimes people commit an act, and feelings of realized freedom of the will do not test. Indeed, a person can achieve the goal by choosing means and methods of activity. And he can choose an immoral, evil-bringing method. A vivid example of this is deviant behavior, namely, offenses. For example, a knife can serve as an instrument of murder or an anesthetic morphine can serve as a drug. But the behavior of animals is always predictable, tk. it reflects the inherent instincts of nature. The man has already studied the animals well and knows what to expect from