Peter Watts. About blindness (№ 186131)

You may think, reason gives you free will? Or forgot that crazy talk, drive cars, commit crimes and clean up the evidence - and all the time are unconscious? Or nobody told you that even those who are awake - only slaves, denying the obvious?
Make an informed choice. Decide to move your index finger. Later! The signal has already passed the elbow. Body began to act before your mind has decided to do, because the mind does not solve anything; your body ordered something different, and the homunculus in the skull, only the explanatory note sent - if not forgotten. The man in the head, arrogant subroutine, thinks himself the person taking the reciprocal relationship for a causal; he reads the note, sees, moves the finger, and considers that the second caused the first.
But he's not in control of anything. And you don't run. If there is in the nature of free will, she never condescends to people like you.