A human being is the cumulation of DNA from two parents These inherited genes are the basis of what that human being may become, and severely limit what one can achieve. As Dennett asserts in his book, “It is all but impossible that I will ever give birth, thanks to my Y chromosome I cannot …show more content…
Humanity has long clung to the ability of ignoring evolutionary predispositions in order to exercise this free will by making choices to benefit others or merely to an individual’s own detriment. Free will is threatened, then, by the idea that every single decision a person may make is the direct result of all the factors that they cannot control. In his book, Dennett argues that free will can coexist with determinism, however, determinism directly affects every single choice a rational creature makes, despite the ability to consider other options. If a human cannot actively choose the circumstances of their birth, their culture, or their education level among a nearly infinite number of other factors, then they cannot truly choose anything for themselves and exercise free