[MD] Freedom

[Krimel]

[John]
And more to Arlo's point, making choice dependent upon chance has a certain
truth ring to it, but I'm not sure I'll buy it.   It makes ME and MY
existence dependent upon chaotic chance. Shudders.  Existential angst comes
all over me.

[Krimel]
We make choices as a way of influencing chance. We seek to improve our odds
of attaining goals or achieving our hearts desire. That is what evolution is
all about and all living things have some ability to perceive their odds in
such matters and to act on them.

Your existence is nothing but the outcome of lots and lots of random events.
A particular sperm fertilized a particular egg at a particular place at a
particular time. If any of those particulars had been minutely different,
right down to the quantum level, you would be someone else.