It could also be said that the state of "Eden" is actually more akin to the world of מלכים or angels to which it is said that they have no free choice of their own but man is different (due to the Fall) in that because he must engage in the world of less entropy that if he is potentially able to learn from his experiences of dealing with the תוהו ווחו or chaos of the world to be become a more perfected being.