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by mannykannot 2750 days ago
If that is so, then free will is a redundant concept (the outcome is actually determined without it), and the question becomes one of why do we feel we have, and are exercising, a choice between A and B.

As it happens, I am pretty sure that I am not a coherent thing - or, at least, I would not rule out a putative explanation on the grounds that it would imply that I am not a coherent thing.

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>and the question becomes one of why do we feel we have, and are exercising, a choice between A and B.

Perhaps there's no choice, but there's an examination/consideration of the alternatives. We mistake this examination as a choice process, even though we only have one choice (the one we end up making).

> We mistake this examination as a choice process, even though we only have one choice (the one we end up making).

Or perhaps you're mistaken that "choice" was ever anything else.