Though I am aware that this is the trickiest element of my entire
argument – resting, as it does, more on introspection than logic –I
contend that freewill proper is the primary cause of all movements of
mind; the freewill of the one subject of all existence. Freewill can never be
experienced directly: it is the driving force behind all experience and, thus,
never an experience itself. But we can infer its existence from the
retroactive sense of free choice that we have immediately after making
a decision. This sense of free choice is, so to speak, the ‘echo’ of the
primary cause reverberating within our psychic structures.
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