When do we really have free choice?
The consideration in favor of free choice is the clear intuition that we have a choice. You say that the Libet experiments are not evidence that there is none because it is a picking and not a choosing scenario. But even in picking there is a clear intuition that I can choose when to press the button freely, but we see that the intuition is wrong from the experiments. The experience of choice in choosing is not fundamentally different, so why would this be a consideration in the dilemma?
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But in terms of the experience of picking, I experience that I am truly allowed to press whenever I want. I am free to choose. It is not a fundamentally different experience than choosing to get up in the morning for prayer when I really want to continue sleeping. And if we have learned that the experience of picking is really an illusion because of the determinism that stems from pr, how can we conclude that in zusing there is truly a choice only because of intuition and immediate experience?
In Picking it is freedom. In Chosing it is liberty. The feeling is not the same. In Picking you feel that you are free and you are indeed free. In Chosing you feel that you are decisive. It is a different feeling in my opinion.
See the Toray series beginning with 126 on freedom and liberty.
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