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helyett!) a Rakoczi u. 5., I. em. 105. teremben
Jan Hendrik Schmidt
Dept of Philosophy of Science,
Cambridge University
"A Physical Realization of Newcomb's Game"
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Eloadaskivonat:
It is a common belief among philosophers that Newcomb's game
("Newcomb's paradox"), as proposed by Nozick in 1969, cannot be
played in our world. Many have even claimed that there are philo-
sophical reasons why it cannot be imagined at all and that there-
fore, Newcomb's problem is ill-posed.
In this lecture I propose a way of picturing Newcomb's game. I
call it a "physical realization" because it is based on standard
physics and thus can be imagined in a universe like ours. As far
as I know, this is the first prposed realization which satisfies
all of Nozick's original conditions. To support my proposal, I
describe and explain the physical mechanisms that realize the
game. Note that these mechanisms do not involve anything like ta-
chyons, wormholes, or other relativistic or quantum mechanical
constructs: Newtonian physics is entirely sufficient to put
Newcomb's game into practice.
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