What you are saying is that you could have chosen a peach instead of chocolate cake just then, as things actually were. You think you could have chosen a peach even if everything else had been exactly the same as it was up to the point when you in fact chose chocolate cake.
Thomas Nagel - What does it all mean? p.48
What did Nagel mean by saying "you could have chosen a peach even if everything else had been exactly the same as it was up to the point when you in fact chose chocolate cake"? Does "everything else had been exactly the same as it was" mean "remained unchanged"?
Does "up to the point" mean "until the time"?
Thanks