The Sleeping Beauty Problem: How To Really Solve It?

A highly controversial decision theory puzzle!

Hemanth
Street Science
Published in
5 min readOct 7, 2022

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The Sleeping Beauty Problem: How To Really Solve It? — An illustration that shows the sleeping beauty (stick figure)fast asleep on the right. On her left is a decision flowchart. First, a coin is tossed on Sunday. If the coin lands heads, the flowchart concludes on Monday. If the coin lands tails on Sunday, the experiment is repeated on Monday, and then concluded on Tuesday. What could the sleeping beauty problem be about?
The Sleeping Beauty problem — illustrative art created by the author

The Sleeping Beauty problem is a decision theory puzzle that deals with the logic and uncertainty of experience. Arnold Zuboff originally proposed it in the 1980s. Later on, people such as Robert Stalnaker and Adam Elga popularised the problem.

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