I had thought that the probabilistic nature of quantum theory was well established, and serious physicists had given up on the kind of determinism represented by “Laplace’s Demon” a long time ago.
It is also well established that randomness by itself is not enough to give us meaningful free will, but I would agree that the randomness/entropy they talk about is a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for free will.
Some will say, however, that the randomness at the level of quantum events cancels out at the macro level, yielding effective determinism at the level of observable human behavior. This strikes me as wishful thinking on the part of those who cling to determinism.
I was unaware or had forgotten the notion that information can be equated to entropy. I’ll have to think about that some more. That kind of information theory might help us develop video compression technology, but I’m not sure how much light it sheds on the problem of free will and determinism.