----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Paradox, or, Breaking the mind of logic
> At 03:32 PM Wednesday 10/11/2006, maru dubshinki wrote: >>On 10/11/06, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>..... >>>He does. Because of the omniintelligence hypothesis, each native >>>can reason like this: >>> >>>(a) If there is only one blue dotted native, then, seeing that >>>everybody else is red dotted, this native will commit ritual >>>suicide in the first night. >>> >>>Induction Hypothesis: >>> >>>(b) Suppose that there are (N+1) blue dotted natives. Then, each >>>of these natives, noticing that the other (N) blue dotted natives >>>didn't commit suicide in the N-th night, will commit ritual >>>suicide in the (N+1)-th night >>> >>>The naturalist provides information because he starts the process, >>>by forcing step (a) of the induction. >>> >>>Alberto Monteiro >> >>This is basically my conclusion as well. I put it differently, >>though: >>with the outsider's pronouncement, each native can know reason about >>the beliefs of each of the others. While it is true that the >>outsider >>provides no new information about the physical situation to each >>blue >>dot, each blue dot now knows something new: that each native *must* >>believe there to be at least one blue dot, because the stranger told >>them all so, where before each blue dot could believe that they >>themself were red and the other blue dot ignorant of their status. >>With this forcing of belief, the induction argument becomes >>operative. > > > I take it this is your alternative explanation of what really > happened on Easter Island? > > On Easter Island an evil naturalist proclaimed publicly that until he had come to this island he had never seen anyone with a green dot. xponent Evil Con Carne Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
