is able to predict the future with near-certainty. Newcomb's paradox was created by William Newcomb of the University of California's Lawrence Livermore...

impossibility. Temporal paradoxes fall into three broad groups: bootstrap paradoxes, consistency paradoxes, and Newcomb's paradox. Bootstrap paradoxes violate causality...

basilisk would otherwise inflict on simulations. Newcomb's paradox, created by physicist William Newcomb in 1960, describes a "predictor" who is aware of...

thought experiments. For example, EDT prescribes taking only one box in Newcomb's paradox, while CDT recommends taking both boxes.: 22–26  In a 1976 paper,...

their recommendations for action in different thought experiments. In Newcomb's paradox, there is a predictor, a player, and two boxes designated A and B...

believe that it is." Newcomb's paradox: A paradoxical game between two players, one of whom can predict the actions of the other. Paradox of nihilism: Several...

change his decision afterwards, of free will. Similarly in line with Newcomb's paradox; Kavka's claim, that one cannot intend what one will not do, makes...

minesweeper Newcomb Pottery, a brand of American Art Nouveau pottery Newcomb ball, a ball game that is a variation of volleyball Newcomb's paradox, thought...

known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960. He was the great-grandnephew of the astronomer Simon Newcomb. Newcomb started at the Lawrence...

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truly is, may lead to causal loops, one form of which is explored in Newcomb's paradox. The film 12 Monkeys heavily deals with themes of predestination and...

arising from infallibility and influencing the future are explored in Newcomb's paradox. A notable fictional example of a self-fulfilling prophecy occurs...

A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently...

probability, she has also studied decision theory in connection with Newcomb's paradox, investigated how gender stereotyping can block human problem-solving...

astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed that in logarithm tables the earlier pages (that started with 1) were much more worn than the other pages. Newcomb's published...

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daughter, Alice's niece, is still alive in Biloxi. Alice enjoys playing "Newcomb's paradox-chess" against her telepathic brother Edward. Throughout Twilight...

how free will relates to the issues Black raised is summarized by Newcomb's paradox. Essentialist philosophers have proposed other theories, such as the...

would have more or all of the available resources directed to it. Newcomb's paradox supposes a being who is believed to be capable of predicting human...

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2011 at the Wayback Machine Irvine, A. D. (1993). "How Braess' paradox solves Newcomb's problem". International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 7...

Quantum game theory also offers a solution to Newcomb's Paradox. Take the two boxes offered in Newcomb's game to be coupled, as the contents of box 2 depend...

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The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural...

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between x j {\displaystyle x_{j}} and y {\displaystyle y} via Berkson's paradox. Apart from constructing statistical models of observational and experimental...

England: JSOT Press. pp. 9–40.  ———  (1987). "Divine Foreknowledge and Newcomb's Paradox". Philosophia. 17 (3): 331–350. doi:10.1007/bf02455055. ISSN 1574-9274...

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choices of a conscious being have the ability to influence the future? Newcomb's paradox and other philosophical problems pose questions about free will and...