Choice and consciousness are identical rather than separate acts

Evidence

One must be conscious in order to choose, and one must choose in order to be conscious. Choice and consciousness are one and the same thing. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1116

Categorization

• DEFINE: The identity of choice and consciousness is a core ontological thesis — the for-itself does not first exist and then choose.
• DEEPTHINKING: The circular identity of choice and consciousness — that neither can precede the other — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting ontological move, not a routine argument point.
• XREF: connects to: Consciousness of self is identical with consciousness of the object, not a separate act — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 134; Life and action are identical in nature as transcended transcendence