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Sebastian, Michael, Cassandra, you seem to be side-stepping the central question. It seems reasonable to me that "choice" is an illusory experience in the same way that much of what we experience visually is illusory.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-neuroscience-of-illusion
I'm trying to understand where Eliezer's expressions of certainty that human are capable of choice (rather than the illusory experience of choosing) comes from?