A mentalist asks you to pick a card. Any card. Complete freedom. You reach into the deck, your hand hovering over different options, and you select one. It feels random. It feels like your choice. The mentalist has not touched you, has not told you what to pick, has given you no explicit instruction beyond ‘choose any card.’ And yet, when they reveal the card they predicted before you even started, it is the exact card you chose. You had free will. You made the decision. Except you did not. You made the decision the mentalist wanted you to make,...