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The author, Pat Hutchinson, claims that many have been studying the argument of free

will versus determinism have used the wrong scientific model. She writes that there is

no need for “confusion and concern”, and that Darwinism held the answer. Hutchinson

notes that David Hume suggests that science has pointed to some form of free will, but

his suggestions would not be studied until later in time. Eventually the question would

be looked at through the lens of evolution to give an answer. Hutchinson writes that

through the work of John Dewey, George Mead, and Igor Pavlov they would arrive to a

similar conclusion. They concluded that we are the product of our “habits built upon our

instinctual behavior” and that there is no “mind or soul” that drives us. And yet, she

writes that we can change the “direction and velocity” of evolution. Hutchinson writes

that Dewey explains that their new definition of free will is that it is “the potential to

redirect the course of nature's continuum of cause-and-effect by achieving conscious

control of the consequences of our actions.”

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