On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> If it's after the rat >> enters the duplicator >> then there are 2 of them, which *one* gets the reward? And even more >> important WHAT IS THE BET? >> > > > > You could adapt any behavioural experiment with rats to a world with > duplicators, and the results will be the same. If a rat learns to repeat a > certain behaviour if it gets a reward half the time, it will learn to go > through a duplicator if half its copies get a reward. The point is that the > rat will behave as if by going through the duplicator it will end up in > one, and only one, place, with a 1/2 probability of getting the reward. > Assuming rats can understand bets and calculate probabilities the truth or falsehood of the above would depend entirely on what the bet is. So I repeat my question, WHAT IS THE BET? John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
