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Reading this has made me rather more ticked off about the philosopher-bashing that sometimes goes on here ("Since free will is about as easy as a philosophical problem in reductionism can get, while still appearing "impossible" to at least some philosophers", )
In the Anti-P-Zombie sequence, I think, there was a proper debunking of the concept of "soul" or "free will", based on quantum.
The relevant posts are Identity Isn't In Specific Atoms, which uses MWI, and Timeless Identity, which uses MWI and timeless physics. Timeless physics is also mentioned in this post of the free will sequence, but I never really got the impression that it's essential to the reduction of free will--the parts about possibility and levels of description when talking about minds seemed more important.
Huh? "Soul" and "Free will" are almost entirely different ideas.
Philosophers are the sort of people who consider problems like free will, so saying some of them are confused is the same as saying some people who consider it are confused. I don't think it's philosopher-bashing.
Of course there is a lot of philosophy-bashing around here. Which I think is well placed.