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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I thought I had made this clear, but let me try again: It is sufficient to show that Many Worlds is not a /necessary/ predicate of Free Will.
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no, you've just kept saying it, but because Conway's model doesn't say anything at all about where its free will comes from, it cannot do that because it is completely disjoint from the question
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It shows that any interpretation of QM can have free will at the quantum level. That the interpretation is orthogonal to the question of free will.
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Replying to @djinnius @chaosprime and
OP claims that interpretation is /not/ orthogonal that it is compatible only with Many Worlds.
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