Even if no examples of this were available, it's not the kind of evidence that is enough to claim that something is impossible.
You're right, and I won't argue it. The idea of not impossible is one I have difficulty with, though. In my original post, replace with , for lack of a better alternative. With anosognosia, that thing is "recognize left-arm paralysis". The reason I didn't stick with that is because I don't know if I have anosognosia or not, which is another layer of uncertainty. Stripped down, though, this is what I'm saying: it seems I should be uncertain about things I know to be certain, and that seems dishonest. I understand the argument against infinite cer...
Followup to: The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You
Brain damage patients with anosognosia are incapable of considering, noticing, admitting, or realizing even after being argued with, that their left arm, left leg, or left side of the body, is paralyzed. Again I'll quote Yvain's summary:
A brief search didn't turn up a base-rate frequency in the population for left-arm paralysis with anosognosia, but let's say the base rate is 1 in 10,000,000 individuals (so around 670 individuals worldwide).
Supposing this to be the prior, what is your estimated probability that your left arm is currently paralyzed?
Added: This interests me because it seems to be a special case of the same general issue discussed in The Modesty Argument and Robin's reply Sleepy Fools - when pathological minds roughly similar to yours update based on fabricated evidence to conclude they are not pathological, under what circumstances can you update on different-seeming evidence to conclude that you are not pathological?