Will is the psychological process of adjusting one’s own activities consciously and purposefully. It is the spiritual pursuit and driving force based on rational knowledge. Unconscious instinctive activities, blind impulses or some habitual actions do not contain or have little will. There is an essential difference between human’s will and animal’s reflex action. Animals have no will. The will of a person shows the unique conscious purpose and active selectivity in the person’s activities, the value orientation and pursuit of a person, and the consciousness based on his understanding of objective necessity. Human will, like human consciousness, is the product of society…
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