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
possibly you're using the term a little differently, when we talk about ego death we're talking about the breakdown of part or all of one's cognitive system of self-regulation and identity (the fear of which turns out to be most of what "fear of death" is actually fear of)
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the vanishing of the ego under examination that Dan was talking about is more like noticing that what you're used to as thinking of the boundaries of You vs. Not You are only relatively real, and you're as much like a waveform blip in a continuous substance as you are entity-like
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Empirically, when you are cut, I don't feel the bleeding.
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