What is the driving force in your life? Logic or emotion? Reasoning or instinct? Mind or heart? Which is stronger? Heart? Mind? Neither? Both? Throughout this quarter we have been exposed to numerous examples to help each of us answer these questions. Nonetheless, no matter your position on this topic we can all agree that your heart and mind play a vital role in our decision-making lives. When looking back at class, I can easily connect these ideas to the novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand. In the book Anthem, we are pushed farther into the future, introduced to a society that revolves around the concept of unity and group ethics. This concept of collectivism restricts the people in this society to everyday normal things in our time. We are introduced
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As Equality moves farther away from his society and explores things forbidden to his community he continually uses his mind more often than his heart. This can be observed in many times throughout Equality’s adventure. Personally, I see the heart and mind as parts to a machine. If the parts don’t move or function then the whole machine is doomed to being inoperative. The heart must fuel the mind so it can keep the rest of the body, as well as the heart itself functioning. Looking back even farther in our quarter, we can find more opinion building substance in the article; The cooperative Instinct, by Kristin Ohlson. The author simply argues that the mind is stronger than the heart. She states, “Cooperation is a fundamental Principle of Evolution” (Ohlson, par. 4). Verbal cooperation/communication most definitely does not come from the heart. It is powered by the mind, and the many sections it is composed of. Ohlson also backs up this statement by saying, “...working together in large numbers of cooperative individuals gave everyone a better shot at survival” (par. 3). This must also indicate that groups of people that used their minds more, were more likely to survival, suggesting the mind is stronger. In the start of
As Equality moves farther away from his society and explores things forbidden to his community he continually uses his mind more often than his heart. This can be observed in many times throughout Equality’s adventure. Personally, I see the heart and mind as parts to a machine. If the parts don’t move or function then the whole machine is doomed to being inoperative. The heart must fuel the mind so it can keep the rest of the body, as well as the heart itself functioning. Looking back even farther in our quarter, we can find more opinion building substance in the article; The cooperative Instinct, by Kristin Ohlson. The author simply argues that the mind is stronger than the heart. She states, “Cooperation is a fundamental Principle of Evolution” (Ohlson, par. 4). Verbal cooperation/communication most definitely does not come from the heart. It is powered by the mind, and the many sections it is composed of. Ohlson also backs up this statement by saying, “...working together in large numbers of cooperative individuals gave everyone a better shot at survival” (par. 3). This must also indicate that groups of people that used their minds more, were more likely to survival, suggesting the mind is stronger. In the start of