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Comment author: atucker 21 December 2010 03:24:24AM 0 points [-]

The closest thing I've experienced to a situation where my subjective experience needs to account for anthropic reasoning is when I'm really tired and fall asleep in the afternoon, then wake up at some time that is either early or late.

For example, if someone tells me that its sometime between 7 or 9 (without PM/AM), then its plausible for me to be waking up in PM, or in the AM. If its PM its fine, but if its AM I should panic, as I've overslept and will be late for school.

Two notes: I mostly wake up in the PM in these situations. Like, at least 90% of the time. In light of that, I'm pretty much always wrong, guessing that I've overslept.