Sleeping Beauty problem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of puzzle in which whenever an ideally rational epistemic agent is awoken from sleep, it has no memory of whether it has been awoken before. Upon being told that it has been woken once or twice according to the toss of a coin, once if heads and twice if tails, it is asked its degree of belief for the coin having come up heads.

Word forms

Sleeping Beauty problem Sleeping Beauty problems

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