> it is arguably the only thing we experience directly, is that we have free will If you unpack that statement, you'll get something like "I can't know my choi

> it is arguably the only thing we experience directly, is that we have free will If you unpack that statement, you'll get something like "I can't know my choice until I make it" and "I determine my choice". Both statements are compatible with determinism. First, you cannot get information from the future about your choice, because it creates paradoxes in a deterministic universe. Second, the same physical state of your body can arise from different starting conditions, hence it's the state of your body, which uniquely determines your actions, not initial conditions of the universe.