The parent's point was that it shouldn't be surprising that inconsequential decisions arise long before we have conscious awareness of it. But that has no relev

The parent's point was that it shouldn't be surprising that inconsequential decisions arise long before we have conscious awareness of it. But that has no relevance to the question of free will, i.e. the capacity to deliberate on decisions. A more relevant test would be to test when explicitly moral decisions are made in relation to our conscious awareness of the decision.