On 12 December 2014 at 14:49, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If both boxes were transparent, that would screw up the oracle's > ability to make the prediction, since there would be a feedback from > the oracle's attempt at prediction to the subject. The oracle can > predict if I'm going to pick head or tails, but the oracle *can't* > predict if I'm going to pick heads or tails if he tells me his > prediction then waits for me to make a decision. > Well, yes, it's basically another version of my suggestion about retroactive collapse of the wavefunction, which was also an attempt to feed back information from the time when the decision is made to the point at which the prediction was made. So I stand by my original point - this can only be a paradox if it's turned into a "Grandfather paradox" - i.e. if in some way there is a self-negating temporal loop from the making of the decision to the making of the prediction (obviously making the boxes transparent means there's no need for actual time travel, but it's the same feedback principle - admittedly rather more simple to arrange!) -- 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.
