Hello Perdition,
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Uncertainty has absolutely nothing to do with free will. It says that the act of measuring one aspect of a particle necessarily affects the other aspects in proportion to the accuracy of the first measurment, meaning you can't know a particle's location and velocity at great accuracy at the same time.
Yes the U.P. is the last bastion of the non-determinist. I can see how one could relate the U.P. to freewill. If the universe was deterministic then I would say freewill is just an illusion. And even though there are many scientific/academics who will refer to the quantum world as deterministic, this is moot since initial conditions can not be duplicated. In other words, If I chose to wear a particular shirt this morning, it was a choice/my free will and not because wave functions propagate in a deterministic fashion. Every behavior of the quantum world in some way does affect the macro world.
Bells Theorum and quantum entanglement are intrinsic to reality imo. So All Ye Determinist can say what you will about my will, I still choose to not chose and thereby made a choice. My 2 centavos