That’s not really free though, because you’re forced to make all possible choices. I guess there are ways that free will could be shoehorned onto the many-worlds model, but both make it even less attractive than it already is. One would be to say that the free-will-thingy only goes in one path rather than splitting. This would have nasty implications; since with an astronomically high probability every free-will-bearing person would be the only one in that universe, so it would be moral to be a psychopath. Another way would be that free will works by eliminating branches, but then it’s no longer all possible universes, and if you’re going that way why not go all the way and have just one anyway? So as far as I’m concerned, many-worlds → no free will. Just one of the reasons I don’t like it.
The main problem I have with it though is it posits a huge amount of unobservable information. That’s way too high a price to pay just to get rid of wavefunction collapse. I really don’t buy the argument that the monstrous Everett multiverse is somehow simpler than the nice compact Copenhagen universe.
That’s not really free though, because you’re forced to make all possible choices. I guess there are ways that free will could be shoehorned onto the many-worlds model, but both make it even less attractive than it already is. One would be to say that the free-will-thingy only goes in one path rather than splitting. This would have nasty implications; since with an astronomically high probability every free-will-bearing person would be the only one in that universe, so it would be moral to be a psychopath. Another way would be that free will works by eliminating branches, but then it’s no longer all possible universes, and if you’re going that way why not go all the way and have just one anyway? So as far as I’m concerned, many-worlds → no free will. Just one of the reasons I don’t like it.
The main problem I have with it though is it posits a huge amount of unobservable information. That’s way too high a price to pay just to get rid of wavefunction collapse. I really don’t buy the argument that the monstrous Everett multiverse is somehow simpler than the nice compact Copenhagen universe.