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comment by dingus
dingus  ·  3095 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Sleeping Beauty problem

A very neat puzzle! I actually can't decide which one is correct.

One thing I thought of was the idea of quantum superposition: sleeping bauty has not observed the coin toss, so(from her point of view) it is simultaneously heads and tails, so all the three "wakings" are equally real.

Given that, I think if sleeping beauty were an electron, she should choose 1/3 because only 1/3 of the equally-real "waking events" invilve a heads coin.

But sleeping beauty is not an electron, and the false branch is not real whatsoever, so the analogy kind of breaks down.