About Me

My name is Will Hayes, and I am a pretty interesting 17 year old. I go to Greer Middle College Charter High School and enjoy a couple different hobbies, including: playing piano, bass, and guitar by ear, reading philsophy, and basketball. I have read a couple of different philosophical works: Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution, Plato's Timaeus and Critias, Albert Camus' The Plague, Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra (still reading), C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, and Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death.  I really do not know why philosophy piques my interest, but it really does open your mind to a completely new framework of thought and a new outlook on life.  When I first began reading philosophy, my favorite subjects were logic and metaphysics, then I transitioned to evolutionary philosophy, and now I am beginning moral philosophy.  Although I am mainly disposed to Western thinking, I have a friend who claims he is a Zen Buddhist.  I, on the other hand, typically side with Christian beliefs...but I am interested in reading Eastern works in World Lit so I can become more educated about the other half of the world. 

As far as music, I have been playing piano by ear since I was 4 (I used to pretend I was playing on the hearth of our fireplace). A couple years ago I picked up the bass guitar and have loved it ever since, along with electric guitar.  My most favorite bands are Boston and Rush, but I love just about all 70s-80s music. 

I recently gained a huge interest in the philosophical problems and theories of consciousness, and it has made me think about a future job in the field of neuroscience/neurophilosophy. 

I am a huge Clemson fan, the kind that beats up house furniture when we loose a heartbreaking game.  I hope to go to 1 or 2 games this year. 

I got my license earlier this summer on my second try, and I am currently memorizing the Lil' Rebel menu in order to get a drive thru position there.