[MD] experience

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Case] 
> there are a variety of factors that can influence my "free will" and 
> the more of them I consider the less free my will seems. 

Or is it the other way?  When I have no reason to eat a bowl of worms, I feel compelled to shun them.  But when I'm offered money, fame & a chance to return to the reality TV program for another week, I weigh the pros & cons.  In this latter case it feels that I am exercising my free will: I could decide either way.   
An adult sucks his thumb.  A Freudian says it's because he has an unconscious desire to be nursed by his mother again.  What is the evidence for this?  He sucks his thumb.
Normally, the taste of worms causes me to shun them.  But when offered money, etc. to do so, I eat the worms. Why?  "Because the force causing me to shun the worms is weaker than the force of wanting money."  But what if instead I decide to eat the worms.  "Then the former force wasn't weaker."  How do we know that?  
Craig