Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.
What matters most is recognition that 'I have my own will. I have my own agency. I have the power within myself to control what I do. '