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>>10853098
Self-awareness isn't free will. It's just self-referencing behavior.
You know how you can point a camera at a TV or computer screen it's hooked up to and create a feedback loop like pic related?
That's basically what self-awareness is like, where the process is taking itself as part of the input for its resulting behavior.
There's nothing anti-deterministic about that. You can have times where you're more self-aware or less self-aware and it just means less of your behavior is being determined by self-referential information.
Similarly, you don't need to believe in free will to recognize a difference between the behavior of your leg kicking when your knee is struck by a reflex hammer vs. the behavior of writing a letter. There are different processes in the brain and different degrees of complexity in how much is going on with the brain when a more involved / non-reflexive behavior is taking place vs. a purely reflexive one.

>>8404275

Forgot pic.