On 10 Dec 2014, at 21:10, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Thursday, December 11, 2014, Terren Suydam
<terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote:
Same here, just one box. The paradox hinges on clairvoyance and how
we could expect that to be sensible in the universe we live in. To
my way of thinking, clairvoyance entails a sort of backwards-
causation which I think can be made sensible in a multiverse. To
wit, you make your choice (one box, say), and that "collapses" the
possible universes you are in to the one in which the clairvoyant
predicted you would choose one box, and so you get the money.
In other words, the justification for choosing both boxes - that the
contents of the boxes have already been determined - fails to
provide an account of clairvoyance that can be made sensible. Or
rather, I just can't think of one.
Terren
Clairvoyance, as you call it, is not logically problematic. What is
logically problematic is free will. The paradox seems to be such
because people believe that their decisions are neither determined
nor random, which is nonsense.
Free will is not problematic to me but I have never believed the idea
that free will is related with some non-determinacy, which is the real
non sense here imo. Free will needs only a high level local
indeterminacy, which indeed all introspective machine have. Not a
genuine nomological indeterminacy which in my opinion is non sensical.
Bruno
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