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.
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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there are a lot more ways to be affected by something than nerve signaling
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The actual sensation is me. Other things are not me. I feel the sensations, and I control some related things. If there is no ego to be affected, then actually there's no way to be affected at all.
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