Suppose the world is super-deterministic, with not just inanimate nature running on behind-the-scenes clockwork, but with our behavior, including our belief that we are free to choose to do one experiment rather than another, absolutely predetermined, including the "decision" by the experimenter to carry out one set of measurements rather than another, the difficulty disappears. There is no need for a faster than light signal to tell particle A what measurement has been carried out on particle B, because the universe, including particle A, already "knows" what that measurement, and its outcome, will be.-Bell bbc, from wikipedia
Compatibilists seek to say that determinism is compatible with free will. But the thing is if all your actions are the result of another's decisions, which they could potentially be in a deterministic world then how can you say they're your choices and not theirs? But there is a way out, if consciousness is shared, identity shared, and the initial cause of the deterministic sequence is this consciousness. Then it is basically the agent which made the choice.
The only remaining problems would be one of emergence, how an emergent entity relates to its components. Because it would seem like being composed of components means a divisible agent's decisions are the result of these components. But this might be of logical necessity, and separating the mind from the components of the mind, might be like separating a person from their physical instantiation. Though a potential solution is if the minimal components also have some degree of consciousness, and thus the collective selection, the collective choice is the result of a collective consciousness.
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