My fear with the teleporter has always been the engineering details—can it get a consistent snapshot of me? what about the last moments after the snapshot and before the old copy is destroyed? can it reliably reconstruct me? what happens in case of a failure?
Assuming many worlds quantum mechanics, we should have similar anticipations for forking into two and for tossing a quantum coin.
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To me this reads as a definition of the term “free will” and then arguing against its existence.
The word “try” here hides lots of complexity and does some heavy lifting. Can you taboo it and rephrase that? Also, are you rejecting the computational theory of mind?
If you take an agent embedded in the environment, I don’t think there is a clear-cut boundary between “not yet made a decision” and “have made the decision”. This abstraction just breaks down.