How would it exclude that?
It would exclude that if someone happened to believe Vladimir_Nesov's dictum that
A choice is a result of deliberative procedure, and since you are specifically stating that ... explicit reasoning procedures were not the cause, ... [it] doesn't seem to qualify as result of a choice.
Most people, when choosing a number between 1 and 10, do not utilize "explicit reasoning procedures", and hence, according to VN, are not making a choice.
It is no big deal; I understand that VN has decided not to insist upon deliberation; but that provides the background to my masochistic impulse.
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