On Monday, September 7, 2015, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> You will undergo the following experiment: > > 1. During the weekend you will be put to sleep with a drug and not be > woken up until Monday. > 2. On monday you will be woken up and asked what day it is. *How do you > answer?* > 3. You are then given a drug to put you to sleep again and also given a > drug that induces amnesia of being woken up at all on Monday. > 4. You are woken up on Tuesday, and asked what day it is. *How do you > answer?* > > *If asked to ascribe a probability to it being Monday when you are woken > up, how do you answer on either of the days you are awoken?* > > (I am particularly interested in John Clark's answer to the final question) > This is like being teleported into either Monday or Tuesday. I'd say there's a 1/2 chance of finding yourself in either Monday or Tuesday when you wake up. Someone else might answer that there is not really a "you" any more as there are two branches, so the question is meaningless. -- 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.
