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 <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:27 PM, 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?* >> > > 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 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
