Right. Uh, I don't think that that conclusion needs to be drawn. I, uh, I think we can take seriously our self-conception and take seriously, what we increasingly are learning about from science about the details of how neurophysiological, um, processes shape how we behave, um, but still supposed we do have capacities to make choices. I think, uh, a fundamental distinction one needs to draw to, to begin to see the possibility of reconciling these two visions, is between some things having causes and some things being wholly determined by, um, some set of causal factors. Uh, I think all of our choices, as well as all of our mental life, more generally, has physical causes. There – there are factors that influence why I'm thinking the thoughts I am, even there – there are physically embedded factors influencing me to take seriously certain options when I, uh, make a choice, versus other options that I don't even consider. [...] Now, that could be an illusion, right? But there's no necessity to suppose that it's an illusion just from the fact that, uh, any choice capacity that I have is at least a causal product of that very capacity, there being a properly functioning brain. source Unverified