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CoachAlan, what you are explaining is why it seems to me that you have free will -- I see your choices, and they look like choices, but indeed, as you say, the apparent 'randomness' might well just be apparent. But this doesn't explain at all why it seems to me that when I 'choose' something, it seems like I could have chosen otherwise. I know how it feels when I make a more or less random choice -- like when I'm trying to decide between Coke and Lemonade and just grab one; or like Buridan's ass, which presumably would just go to one of the bales of hay. I also know how it feels when I'm compelled to do something. But reasonable often, my action seems to me to be the result, not of some compulsion or of some randomness, but rather of my choice. And this you have not explained.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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