Maybe they are closer to me and I am embarrassed to stretch over. Maybe I just change my mind. My point is that it is only when I have the biscuit in my hand that even I will know for certain which one I have chosen. Until the action is taken, no decision is finally made. Once the action is taken, there is no going back.
Determinists argue that because all actions are determined, none is our responsibility.
I argue in the opposite direction and extend the scope of responsibility much further in the nonvoluntary direction than is normal in legal circles. I start with certain actions at the extreme positive end of my sliding scale which I cannot help but claim as my own actions willingly undertaken. Yet it appears that even those actions that feel most obviously like free choices can be shown, on both physiological and introspective grounds, to have been initiated other than by conscious choice, and to have been decided upon only in the act of doing them. Not at all. I disown the three-step model, but not my decisive actions.