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Ultimately, the illusion of choice is your burden to bear. As an intelligent being in a cosmos of unfaltering physical laws- any choice you make is predetermined by your genes, which are in turn determined by the chemistry that put them there.
But what of predetermination? Even if everything in the universe follows a set “plan” that was put into motion upon its creation, there is no way to know what that plan is. Even if all the matter and energy in the universe was combined to make a massive computer, that computer could not count and comprehend all of its parts, and predict what it could do next- it's simply impossible to <span class="mu-i">know</span> what everything in the universe will do. Philosophically speaking, the script of all actions that will happen in the universe cannot exist within it. There is a significant difference between a <span class="mu-i">certain</span> certainty and a certain <span class="mu-i">uncertainty</span>.
Of course, the truth is that your ability to perceive the objective world and figure that into decisions you make, even if they are not ultimately your own, is the same as decision. Why would a creature doing what it is best at, like this worm, not be the result of a choice? Choices without consequences are ultimately pointless and don't even exist. Purpose, over Freedom. Even if your genes and training decide what course of action you will take, that course of action is also what you perceive to be the correct one at the time. With the fact that you can't know for certain what every particle in the universe will ultimately do with its limited time and energy, and you can't know for certain what the consequences of every choice are, there is no reason to assume that choices aren't real. They are real to our perceptions, which makes them real in principle.
You refuse to cope again physical reality, and you refuse to give into despair. Perhaps the self-emergent property of consciousness is, itself, the uncertainty in the great “plan” of the universe. While you may be only physical, with no soul or spirit or magical God to give you purpose, this doesn't necessarily mean that physical matter is not capable of freedom. Atomic decay is random. Do they <span class="mu-i">choose</span> how they shed their mass?
You were born to be a ruler. You were designed in a test tube to do your job. You've ordered the same- your secret <span class="mu-s">Ingar II</span> project. Your genes, training, and past choices led you to here. Jaxtian. Indigo. Supreme Ruler. Male. Duelist. These are definitions, but they don't define you. You were incorrect when you thought on what Kimnan told you before. You aren't who you were made to be-
