ChristianKl comments on If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty... - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 19 November 2010 04:45:14PM 4 points [-]

From my own experience of awaking after days of artificial coma I find it unlikely to believe that the person will go through a good Bayesian reasoning.

It's very hard to form the belief that it's Thursday when the last day you remember is a Sunday. It goes against fundamental principles that evolution taught us over millions of years. It's one of those cases where our availability heuristics is really bad.

PS: I know this is only a thought experiment.

Comment author: robertskmiles 19 August 2012 12:37:31AM 5 points [-]

The ancestral environment didn't contain a lot of artificial comas, but to be fair it didn't contain many named week days either.