Somewhere out there in configuration space there is a version of you who is the immortal god king of the universe and everyone loves you. In another version of the universe you are a meat slave in a factory farm. We get to decide which one to identify more with.
i'm trying to think of something that has less factual illustrative power than choice of axioms and it's damned hard unless all you want illustrated is what axioms somebody likes
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This started with "The only way free will can work is if the Many worlds theorem of quantum mechanics is true", which is refuted by the Strong Free Will Theorem.
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oh, i have no investment in that position and don't think it's the case, but Conway here doesn't refute it either, in the whole thing free will is just a black box hypothetical causal phenomenon whose provenance isn't raised as a question
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Conway explicitly provides a model of free will which doesn't rely on Many Worlds.
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he provides a model of necessary derivation of free will of collections of particles from free will of particles, he doesn't provide a model of free will at all; his fully baseless axiom of free will could rely on many-worlds or not, the question isn't asked
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As the person who brought up many worlds in the first place. It's not necessary for a "Non deterministic universe" but is necessary for the chaos of quantum mechanics to contain something humans would recognize as choice.
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If human beings have any choice in an inherently chaotic universe, it's because we chose which timelines to passively observe. In a non chaotic universe, nothing resembling free will can possibly exist.
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