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"Could have acted differently" - No person would act any differently in the same situation, becuase whatever their reasons, they would be the same, and thus, the thought process that leads them to that decision will be the same.
Francisco: You seem to have interpreted my idea of running through the same situation many times, as being to run through the situation once, then go back and run through it again. I put "given the same conditions" there on purpose. I mean the same in all aspects, down to the knowledge that the person has. Given one set of variables, there will be one outcome. Sure, the variables are the position and velocity of every particle in the universe, but that doesn't matter.
With regards to the locked room, I would say that in terms of freedom, they are the same. They are both restrained from leaving. One by walls, one by his own desire.
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"Oh, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83 when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."
Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
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