There's no way anyone but me can know that. Even a brain scan
  that shows activity that's theoretically prior to my conscious
  awareness of it doesn't negate my choice in the matter.

  It is true, of course, that we do things and then tell stories
  about why we did them after that fact. We justify our recent
  past (now) actions against further past patterns to try to
  explain "what just happened", predicting / anticipating certain
  responses form the environment based upon past experience.

  In short, we're always comparing the past with the past.

  Just the same, it doesn't negate the freedom of my choices.