If you're okay with a semi-serious answer, I'd venture our collective human ignorance will always present the appearance of genuine choice, which I'm okay with. I can't say how that relates to consciousness.

I don’t see what connection you are trying to draw between consciousness and free will here, or what question about that connection you are asking.

I do think there is a connection though, in that consciousness and free will are analogous to each other. Phenomenal consciousness is like incompatiblist free will: everything has it, it’s just an inevitable aspect of existing, so it doesn’t differentiate anything from anything else, and isn’t of any practical importance. Access consciousness is like compatibilist will: they are the important kinds of their respective things, that distinguish fully fledged people from rocks and trees and simple machines, but they aren’t of a much philosophical interest, being only a kind of reflexive functionality (self-awareness and self-control respectively) built up out of simpler ordinary physical functionalities.