The way this works in reality is with retrocausality. In the same sense that a molecule is controlled by a cell but still influences the cell, phenomequalitesselation is where God or similar conceptualization of retrocausal force (time travel) controls the unfolding of history, but our most human choices influence the strange attractor of the transcendental object at the end of the universe, so we have free will in a deterministic system, which is really illusory, like the self.