You were told the protocol before you were put to sleep. You know that the answer cannot be Friday.
Note: the experimenters add that if you guess correctly, they will give you $100,000. Will you still answer Friday? Jason On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:41 AM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:27 PM, 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?* >> > > I was put to sleep on Friday and subjectively that was less than 2 > seconds ago so I'd say Friday. > > >> > >> 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?* >> > > Friday. > > *> 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) >> > > There is a 100% probability that it will seem to be Friday to me. I > could not say what day of the week (or what year or what century or what > milenium) it will seem to be to other people unless I knew how long I was > sleeping. I wouldn't have enough information to even make a guess. > > John K Clark > > > > > > > >> >> Jason >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
