king I'd say my mind is right where I'd want it to be at this age. And that has everything to do with the fact that I push it. So every single day I'm doing something intellectually that's a little bit harder than what I can do easily. So it probably works. I recommend it.

Last night in the man cave I broke some brains. You may know I'm not going to talk about free will or argue it here because everybody's bored with that. But I'm going to tell you just something that happened when the topic came up in the man cave last night. That's a private live stream for the subscribers of my Scott Adams Locals group. And what I told them was they can't learn to author the simulation until they lose their illusion of free will. And people said, what? How does that even make sense? What does free will have to do with managing the simulation if we are in a simulation? What's any of that even mean? How's it connected?

Well, here's how it's connected. If you believe you have free will, you're living in an illusion. And if you're living in an illusion, you can't control your reality because you don't know what it is. You have to understand your reality before you can author it. And free will is one of our most persistent illusions. Now you might say to me, but Scott, that's not making sense because if you're authoring your environment, that sounds a lot like having free will. So you're saying I have to understand I don't have free will to actually author the environment, which would be like having free will. Like, how does that even make sense?

Here's how it makes sense. When you learn you don't have free will, that becomes a permanent part of the structure of your brain. I think you all understand that everything you learn becomes a physical structure in your brain because if it weren't physical you wouldn't have the memory. Everything you know, everything you learn, everything you remember is physical. It's physically in your brain. If that part of your brain got damaged, that part would be gone. So if I teach you hypothetically that free will is not real, that too becomes a permanent structure in your brain. And it's that permanent structure, along with some others that ar