AB,
I think of an action.
I choose to do it
I think of a word.
I choose to write it.
This is reality.
How can anyone choose to start an investigation into the reality of their freedom to choose if they have no freedom to choose? What processes initiate and drive this investigation? If, as you claim, such investigation must be predetermined in our subconscious before we are aware of it - what takes responsibility for the workings of our subconscious? How can we possibly verify it to be correct within an environment which comprises nothing but inevitable physically defined reactions?
More bilge. As torri says, choice isn't like a box of options that you open and then select from by some unknown process. For that to be the case you'd have to invent a separate "you" to do the choosing, and then you'd have to find a way to get this separate you off the hook of itself acting neither deterministically nor randomly. You know, the problem you always just ignore.
Your so called explanation poses far more questions that it explains.
But your option of "it's magic" opens by magnitudes countless more problems than the gaps in the incomplete answer we do have. Do you not think that having some answers is a better bet than having no answers at all?
As you just ignored it last time, here's a basic question for you: can you see that you would perceive a separate "you" doing the choosing
in exactly the same way you would perceive an integrated you that's a self-aware naturalistic organism?
And if you can see that the two perceptions would be identical at an experiential level, why then opt for the explanatory model that's relies on magic over the one that relies on reason and evidence?
