I will admit I am not well read on philosophy so could there be something in between or a hybrid that has been considered?
I'm even less read on philosophy, which is why I tackle such questions as scientific matters. However, I think as long as you can practice logic, you can do some sorts of philosophy, although I believe it has to be at least partially scientific (e.g not completely out-there speculations).
Back to the topic, though. What exactly do you mean by a hybrid? I see this more of as a yes/no question, either you have free will or you don't. How can there be middle ground? Or do you mean in the sense that full free will would mean that you can change anything in the nature (a la god), and limited free will means you can only influence yourself?
the system seems to not be deterministic but doesnt have to mean the observer isnt
I may be missing something, but I don't see how you can derive conclusions about the free will of the observer in such experiments, don't you have to examine the observer in detail to determine whether he's a quantum mechanical system or there's some supernatural free will at work? This is what I mean by the argument "the observer appears to have free will, therefore he has free will". Yes, an observer can influence the experiment in a non-random fashion that cannot be easily described by simple statistics, but that's everywhere in human life. A human is complex enough that it can defy simply statistics if it wants, but how does that give it free will? You can devise a complex algorithm for a robot or whatever, and it can perform just as well - so it has free will too?
And whether our brain is deterministic or not doesn't matter here. It is of interest, of course, to me especially, but QM doesn't add to the free will of anyone. What I mean by deterministic or not is, if we look at the same chemical chain reaction example as I presented before:
A (stimulus) -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F (result #1) - has ~100% probability of happening, meaning it is
deterministic.
A (stimulus) -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F (result #1) - has 29% probability of happening, meaning it will happen in 29% of the universes
A (stimulus) -> B -> C -> G -> U -> T (result #2) - has 33% probability of happening, and so on. This is
non-deterministic.