"So if we're going to keep our concepts of "cause" and "control" and "choose" - and to discard them would leave a heck of a lot observations unexplained"

Surely as a reductionist you have to maintain that this is due to our lack of ability to model things of our complexity at the atomic and sub-atomic level.

At some point in the future a SI could come a long and explain all those observations in terms of atoms etc and your "control" etc would go poof becoming epiphenomenal.

I don' object to talking about control in normality ™ but mixing in control with the SI-eyes view of a timeless physics is mistaken.