On Monday, September 7, 2015, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
