There is a famous paradox, the paradox of Buridan’s Ass, named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan. Imagine an ass which is extremely hungry. It is exactly equidistant from two bales of hay (in some versions it’s a bale of hay and a pail of water and the ass is equally hungry and thirsty). On some views of what motivates action there would be nothing to make that animal head one way or the other, it would be caught in a deadlock, and so it would stay where it was and would...
