t h e a x i om o f c h o i c e i s a x i o m a t i c
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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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"could rely or not" reduces to "does not rely"
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okay yeah but it doesn't reduce to "refutes"
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"the only way" vs. "does not rely" -> refutation
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enh nah because it isn't speaking to the question pomo's assertion addresses at all, a many-worlds-derived free will would slot into the model as well as any other kind
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and if that were in fact the only kind that could work the model remains serenely undisturbed
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