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Possibly. Anxiety is a feeling that grows stronger as the anticipated event approaches.
Do you really think it would stir all that much emotion?
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Do you really think it would stir all that much emotion?
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You can fool yourself because of the shock value of the substantial reward, but then, as the euphoria dies down, and logic is allowed room, a mind can definitely, unintentionally change.
It relies on not thinking of the consequences. Considering it's a long way to midnight, I don't think you can beat the pink elephant paradox for that long.
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No, there is the possibility to actually intend to drink it, without intending to change beforehand, but as the time approaches to carry it out, the consequences dawn on you more and more, as you think about it more and more, and can eventually lead to an unintended change. But an intended change in intention is in the wording. If you intended to change your mind, how can you claim to ever have truly intended to do the first thing, without lying?
Er, exactly? You would probably know yourself well enough to know whether or not you would drink it ahead of time.
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It doesn't seem as complicated to me. That answer depends on the circumstances of the decision to change intentions, mainly involving a lack of a preemptive intention to do so. An intention to change intentions is no intention at all. It is just an indicator of hat the true intentions always were.
But that's the thing: How could you change intentions like that? You know the rules of the game beforehand. Either you intend to change intentions or you have to drink it.
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If you intend to change your intention, your intention was never really what it started as anyways.
Hence the puzzle. A contest was being held with the following rules: You have a small bottle of poison that won't kill you; it will just make you violently ill for the next day. You're offered a substantial sum of money if, at midnight that night, you can intend to drink the poison by noon the next day. You do not have to drink the poison to win the game—you receive the money at 12:05 at night and are fully free to choose to not drink the poison once you receive the money. Is it possible to win the game but not drink the poison?
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Guilty. Take me to juvie.
Too old.
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Seems easy enough. You definitely can.
Sure, but then it asks whether you can intend to change your intention. That's a harder question to answer.
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You lost me.
He created it in his analysis on Mutually Assured Destruction, and it effectively asks if you can truly intend to do something and then not do it.
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I know most of what I do. Not any specific reference though.
I don't know what you did either. But you do.
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