Question

Dear Rabbi, hello,

First of all, thank you.
I have a question about free choice. I asked many rabbis from the Arachim group, and outside of it as well. I listened to your lectures on the subject on YouTube; it was a pleasure, and fascinating, to hear and learn your line of thought, and it seems to me that you’re the right address.
The question, as you presented it, is that from a physiological perspective choice cannot exist, since if we agree
that in the case of Buridan’s donkey, the donkey will die of thirst, because when the considerations are evenly balanced there is no way to choose, since everything is equal—then the question continues, and with full force. Even if we go further and say that there is something beyond physics, the same question still always remains: if consciousness has to choose a side, then it too must, like the donkey, get stuck in the middle with no movement or instruction to the human body. And if consciousness or the soul or whatever it is has some tendency that pulls it toward a certain side, then again the choice was not really its own, and determinism remains in full force.
I heard in the lecture, and it was clear that you really touched on the point, and somehow you argue that since you divided between the physical and the metaphysical stage, the question is somehow weakened—but that isn’t true; the question really remains in full force.
 
Please… I’m really having a hard time wrapping my head around the problem
 
I’d be happy for any response.
 
Thanks in advance.