In 1977 Edna Ullman-Margalit and Sidney Morgenbesser published a seminal article where the detailed the differences between picking and choosing:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971175Picking describes arbitrary decisions between equivalent options, while choosing describes decisions where there are reasons for each choice. More and more #neuroscience studies cast a new light on this distinction:https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/09/what-is-a-decision/