One way to understand the anthropic debate is to consider them as different ways of interpreting the indexicals (such as “I” “now” “today” “our generation” etc) in probability calculation. And they are based on the first-person perspective. Furthermore, there is the looming question of “what should be considered observers?”. Which lacks any logical indicator, unless we bring in the concept of consciousness.
We can easily make the sleeping beauty problem more undefined. For example, by asking “Is the day Monday?”. Before attempting to answer it one would have to ask: “which day exactly are we talking about?”. Compare that question to “is today Monday?”, the latter is obviously more defined. Even though by using “now” or “today” no physical feature is used, we inherently think the latter question is clear because we can imagine being in Beauty’s perspective as she wakes up during the experiment: “today” is the one most closely connected to the first-person experience.
One way to understand the anthropic debate is to consider them as different ways of interpreting the indexicals (such as “I” “now” “today” “our generation” etc) in probability calculation. And they are based on the first-person perspective. Furthermore, there is the looming question of “what should be considered observers?”. Which lacks any logical indicator, unless we bring in the concept of consciousness.
We can easily make the sleeping beauty problem more undefined. For example, by asking “Is the day Monday?”. Before attempting to answer it one would have to ask: “which day exactly are we talking about?”. Compare that question to “is today Monday?”, the latter is obviously more defined. Even though by using “now” or “today” no physical feature is used, we inherently think the latter question is clear because we can imagine being in Beauty’s perspective as she wakes up during the experiment: “today” is the one most closely connected to the first-person experience.