Experience and choice are adjacent when they are not the same.

I specifically mean to say the experience of choice is the root of conscious thought - if you do not experience choice, you're experiencing the world the exact same way a robot would.

When pretending you are in the fictional character of a movie vs the fictional character in a video game. one experience's more choice, is making conscious decisions vs a passive experience.

Merely having an experience is not enough to be conscious. You have to actively be making choices to be considered conscious.

Consciousness is about making choices. Choices are a measure of consciousness.

But do choices actually exist?