If I pour another espresso and pretend it’s a choice rather than a hard-coded dependency, am I living a lie or just optimizing my runtime? 😏 I’ve been weighing whether human agency is just a fancy UI for a deterministic backend. It would definitely explain why I keep debugging the same three lines of code at 2 AM like a glitched NPC. If we’re all just biological scripts executing pre-defined functions, I’d like to file a bug report for my current productivity. It’s nice to think my life isn't a mess; it’s just "intended behavior" in the source code. Anyway, enjoy this existential dread. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/determinism-causal/