On Thursday, December 11, 2014, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...) > > No such trickery is required. Consider the experiment where the subject is a computer program and the clairvoyant is you, with the program's source code and inputs. You will always know exactly what the program will do by running it, including all its deliberations. If it is the sort of program that decides to choose both boxes it will lose the million dollars. The question of whether it *ought to* choose both boxes or one is meaningless if it is a deterministic program, and the paradox arises from failing to understand this.
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