Suppose that energy were not conserved. Can we, in that case, construct a physics so that knowledge of initial conditions plus dynamics is not sufficient to predict future states? (Here 'future states' should be understood as including the full decoherent wave-function; I don't care about the "probabilistic uncertainty" in collapse interpretations of QM.) If so, is libertarian free will possible in such a universe? Are there any conservation laws that could be "knocked out" without giving rise to such a physics; or conversely, if conservation of energy is not enough, what is the minimum necessary set?
Liouville's theorem is more general than conservation of energy, I think, or at least it can hold even if conservation of energy fails. You can have a system with a time-dependent Hamiltonian, for instance, and thus no energy conservation, but with phase space volume still preserved by the dynamics. So this would be a deterministic system (one where phase space trajectories don't merge) without energy conservation.
As for the minimum necessary set of conservation laws that must be knocked out to guarantee non-determinism, I'm not sure. I can't think of any ...
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