not everyone has the same reaction to the same experience, resulting in a myriad of choices being made. if everything were predetermined, we'd all have the same reactions to the same stimuli
For everyone, it is predetermined
individually how they will react to stimuli.
Choices are made, all the time, but they aren't free choices.
Any choosing (action) comes only after a choosing thought. Do you have any control over your thoughts?
Think of something, say, a Cannabis strain. What came to mind? Why? Did you have control?
We have zero control over
anything. There is only the illusion that we do. And it always comes after the fact. You say: "I COULD have done otherwise," when in fact you could not.