A question about the sciences of freedom.

Shalom Rabbi, you said in your book that it is better to look at the connection between the mental and the physical as cause and effect. For this to occur, the physical event must occur before the mental event that we experience. Let’s take, for example, the experience of joy, which from a physical point of view is characterized by the secretion of dopamine in the brain. Do we know for sure that the secretion occurs even slightly before the mental experience of joy? If so, it works out perfectly that it is cause and effect (and perhaps even proof, because it sounds strange that the same event, the secretion of dopamine and mental joy, would not occur at the same time).
If not and it’s the same time, it’s complicated for me because there’s no temporal element. (And if I remember correctly, you said in your book that physical and mental processes occur at the same time)