Maybe it's a delayed choice experiment and retroactively collapses the wave function, so your choice actually *does* determine the contents of the boxes.
(Just a thought...maybe the second box has a cat in it...) On 11 December 2014 at 09:10, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, December 11, 2014, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Same here, just one box. The paradox hinges on clairvoyance and how we >> could expect that to be sensible in the universe we live in. To my way of >> thinking, clairvoyance entails a sort of backwards-causation which I think >> can be made sensible in a multiverse. To wit, you make your choice (one >> box, say), and that "collapses" the possible universes you are in to the >> one in which the clairvoyant predicted you would choose one box, and so you >> get the money. >> >> In other words, the justification for choosing both boxes - that the >> contents of the boxes have already been determined - fails to provide an >> account of clairvoyance that can be made sensible. Or rather, I just can't >> think of one. >> >> Terren >> > > Clairvoyance, as you call it, is not logically problematic. What is > logically problematic is free will. The paradox seems to be such because > people believe that their decisions are neither determined nor random, > which is nonsense. > > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
