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Scott Aaronson wrote an essay titled "The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine" which talks about the idea of, depending on what level of detail would be needed to simulate a human brain in a way that reflects consciousness, the no cloning theorem could maybe prevent such a copy from being made. It might be impossible to make copies and thereby see what the person would do in the different situations.

And so, due to states originating in a way that we can't possibly know, this would maybe allow/explain/whatever free will.

I'm not endorsing that idea, but I thought it was relevant to what you were talking about and worth considering.




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