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