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The Sleeping Beauty Problem -- A Real-World Solution

Physics and Society 2023-12-14 v1 History and Overview

Abstract

The Sleeping Beauty Problem remains a paradoxical problem that penetrates multiple disciplines that include probability theory, self-locating belief, decision theory, cognitive science, the philosophy of mathematics and science. It asks the credence of Sleeping Beauty on a coin toss being Heads in the experiment that incites two main stances, that of the Halfers and Thirders. Here a real-world empirical approach numerically highlights breakdown between these groups and considers the role of how a real-world application of such an experiment with sleep induction by anesthesia and pharmacological amnesia induction would affect the coin credence probability of Sleeping Beauty.

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@article{arxiv.2312.07544,
  title  = {The Sleeping Beauty Problem -- A Real-World Solution},
  author = {Hutan Ashrafian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.07544},
  year   = {2023}
}
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