Past Life Regression

[Alex]

Yes, DeWitt and Deutsch have done that. And very few of their colleagues agree with it. Also, the the probabilities that would go into free will are so complex (not to mention that there is no way to measure it since the universes are non-communicative) that it would be impossible to determine if a certain outcome was overrepresented in the multiverse. Since even DeWitt and Deutsch still believe that the multiverse is deterministic they have to do some interesting gymnastics to maintain free will as a theoretical artifact.

I won't with you that we have the experience of free will. That is what I've always said. We are hardwired to perceive free will, there is just no reason to believe our perception of it is correct.

Out of curiosity, do you know who Martin Gardner is? If not, he is one of the greatest proponents of the scientific method that we currently have. Anyway, it is true that many theories initially meet with disregard. That said, 99% of them deserve it. And of course there is the fact that Everett's theory is not widely disregarded, even among those who don't buy into it it is a respectable theory. There are just some fringe elements that aren't generally accepted.

Everett's arguments are very much worthy of consideration and are an important part of the conversation for quantum mechanics. It is just important to keep in mind that it is just one theory, that there are other equally compelling answers being offered, and that there is a lot of pseudoscience crapbabble that gets attached to these theories by people who don't really understand them but like the credibility offered by using the terms.

And to answer your question I'm just using Google (and, at the risk of lacking humility (me? never), an expensively earned education in information retrieval).