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>>15151948
Penrose touches on the subject a bit. It's a bit of a stretch and not really formalized, but the idea is derived from his theory that "consciousness is not a computation" (I'm tired of hearing that line, although I'm inclined to agree with it) which proposes that consciousness is the result of quantum processes.
Extending this to free will (i.e. free will as a result of a conscious rational agent) the collapse of the wave function could be determined by an agent's "free will", such that your conscious decision affects the reduction of superposition to a single eigenstate, i.e. that not collapse of the wave function is not deterministic.
Penrose doesn't argue this explicitly (I'm not very well-read on his work so I can't say for sure) but this idea CAN be derived from the quantum consciousness theory.
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