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Free Will Isn’t Real

“I remember distinctly my mom being like “oh boy, you know, [Calvin’s] been having all these realizations every, every couple of days [Calvin] has some new realization” and I would always be like trying to pepper my mom with philosophy. I’d be like “Mom. Free will isn't real.” Like I remember scouting these things, so that was a huge shift. And it was actually my mom, I remember, who really who really made me conscious of the fact that, like, wait a minute. Why don't I study this? Because I remember talking to her and being like mom, I don't know what to take for classes next year. And she was like, well, you've been freaking talking so damn much about psychology. Why don't you take some of those classes and just see what you think? And so I think I, I think I must have. That that must have inspired me because the next semester 2020 fall, I took, it looks like I took introduction to programming. I took languages of the world, and I took cognitive neuroscience. All three of which are basic components to the cognitive science degree.”

Male, USA