You are going to have to help me out. I suspect I really don't know what you are getting at. Since the non-volitional creatures are precluded from doing anything except what is, "on the list," (that is, the set of automatic behavior instinct provides), only man is required and capable of discovering what is possible, and what the requirements of his life are and choosing how to apply what he learns to his own chosen goals and purposes.
For man, there is no list, only reality and his ability to observe, to reason about what he observes and thereby learn. But all this is not possible except to creatures who are free to choose. Within the limits of physical and logical possibility, for volitional beings, there are no limits and there is no finite list of possibilities.
Where are the limits being able to choose imposes on beings that would not be imposed on them if they could not choose?
I'm not arguing with your point, only trying to discover exactly what it is. I might agree with it if I knew what it was.
Hank