My read is - if all possibilities exist, there really is no choice, since in any situation all decissions are made - as they play out in all these multi-verses. Granted, this possibility of a multi-verse is not something that can (at this point) be scientificly scrutinized. However, if this does describe the metaphysical reality, it still doesn't jive with the phenomenological experience of reality - of just one universe. That just made me speculate that perhaps "consciousness" (and the experience of time) is a singular experience in which "choice" is really about what part of the multi-verse to focus on next (that is I don't experience an omniscient consciousness of the multiverse). Sort of how I can have a CD of a bunch of different songs, but only listen to one at a time.
In this way Freewill still may exist as a part of phenomenological consciousness - though not in the way we might ordinarily think of it. It would be more passive in the sense that playing a CD is more like choosing what music to listen to than actually making the music.
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