"...'internal' choices - the possibility of conscious decision making being illusory..."

This discussion is heading close to certain concerns in Phenomenology, in which an observer attempts to 'run around behind himself' and examine his own internal reactions to his own thought processes....as in asking oneself "Am I aware of my own motivation...and is it possible to tell if I am honest with myself in my own conclusions"
This process falls broadly under the header of performing an "Eidetic_reduction", although there is some disagreement as to whether such can actually BE done. (Sort of like the concern that just observing microscopic organisms affects and changes them.)

When we debate all these issues and air our differences and come to different conclusions, I often find the most interesting question is not "Who is correct?", but rather, "How is it we can all look at the same data and use the same words and come to different conclusions?"

Debates over Religion and God and the Nature of Mind are only some of the more abstruse concepts we embroil ourselves in as we strive to look AT human concerns from within the confines of being Human.....