the whole reason we are conscious is to make executive decisions. we just don't have any choice in what those decisions will be. this is a read only universe. #fakeuniverse
Of course we have a choice, that's what determinism is for, to make choices. A choice is a necessary, consciously imposed relation between past and future. If there were multiple possible outcomes, it wouldn't be a choice because it wouldn't be in our control.
Philosophical free will is terminally confused, because it mixes up map and territory; it confuses the speculative imagined futures in our decisionmaking procedure with actually existing, physically real universes. To make a decision, we create speculative fictional mental universes conditioned on different choices we make, rank them by preference, then "decide" on the one that is the most favored. Now of course the output of that function was predetermined from the start, but we did not have access to it. So we compute it, and the process of computing it is what 'choosing' is.
