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    Supports→The outcome of the player's choice does not cause the player's decision.

    Unless one replaces forward causation with backward causation, the future outcome cannot cause the prior decision.

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    However, it can be maintained that the player still has her free choice. Nothing around the fortune teller causes the player to make a particular decision. The player is as free as she would be with no prediction. What the fortune teller is able to predict is the result of the player’s choice. The choice itself may nevertheless be free. Moreover, unless one replaces forward causation with backward causation, one cannot argue that it is the outcome of the player’s choice that causes her decision.

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