How can one determine how one has free will in such random circumstances?

Question

I was looking at two large white eggs sitting next to each other, one to the left one to the right. I picked the one to the right. Did I have to pick that one, or could I have picked up the one to the left?
What led me to pick up the one that I did?

Answer 1

Theres a process in a brain that happens when making a decision.
So I believe thought is part of a mechanical process that makes up the laws of the universe.
You would've inevitably chosen the one on the right if thats what you did.
You could not have chosen the one on the left since there is only one possible outcome for any given situation.
I've never heard a good argument for free will.
Its just an illusion I say.

Answer 2

You could easily put that one back down and pick up the other one.

It is still free will. You have a choice, nothing is forcing you. In fact, you could've taken both or none.

This sounds sort of like a Schrödinger's cat scenario. You cannot know that you made a willing choice without changing the state of the experiment of willingness.


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Untrue. The only random sequence known to man is radiation. Everything else is cause and effect. Radiation is actually a truly random substance. That's why they used it in cryptology to encrypt messages.

Answer 3

I don't believe the term "free agency" appears anywhere in holy writ. Instead, the scriptures generally speak of agency or free will, but when agency is modified, it is referred to as “moral agency,” which is more correct.

The plan of salvation provided the means whereby the spiritual offspring of our Heavenly Father (see Acts 17:28–29) could come to earth to gain a physical body so “that [we] might have joy,” for when the body and spirit are “separated, man cannot receive a fulness of joy.”


The Apostle Paul clearly forewarned us of the price of unwisely using our agency: “The wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23). Each time we misuse our moral agency, there is a penalty attached: By offending the Spirit, we withdraw from his companionship; and when we persist in our deviant course of action, we experience a spiritual death, and with certain sins death may be physical as well as spiritual.

We've also been taught that “wickedness never was happiness,” a reality more powerful than gravity. Unhappiness is another price to be paid for misusing our agency. To some of the recalcitrant generation of his day, a prophet explained, “Ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.” Happiness is the design of our existence. Righteousness is also the design of our existence.

That being said - and understanding that is a very brief comment on the subject - which egg one chooses may not fall under the 'moral agency' heading. Man certainly has been given agency by God. But God also said,
"For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward.
Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;
For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward."

Answer 4

you could have picked any one. its only in people with OCD that these random circumstances become unrandomized because they're brains have to follow a certain pattern all the time otherwise they have a major melt down. most peoples brains enjoy patterns to a certain extent but if you are sitting there thinking about choosing a random egg, you will.

Answer 5

Try the experiment 4 more times and see how many left and right eggs you pick.

PS - Nothing is random, everything is cause and effect...