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> > A robot might select an apple over an orange,
> > but that doesn't mean it has "free will" ("the uncaused cause").
> 
> How is an "uncaused cause" different from randomness?

There is no such thing as an "uncaused cause" ( free will ).

All of history, every lesson ever, every advance, tells me:

  Randomness is ignorance, nothing more.