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40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 June 2008 06:37AM

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Comment author: Unknown 07 June 2008 04:57:57AM 0 points [-]

Again, if free will requires that the future not be fixed, then many-worlds implies that free will can exist. According to many-worlds it is impossible to predict the result of a quantum mechanical experiment, precisely because both results must happen to different versions of you. So before you do the experiment, it is completely indeterminate what "you" are going to see.