Indecision and Buridan’s Principle.
The problem known as Buridan’s Ass says that a hungry donkey equipoised between two identical bales of hay will starve to death. Indecision kills the ass. Some philosophers worry about human analogs. Computer scientists since the 1960s have known about the computer versions of such cases. From what...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 200; no. 5; pp. 1 - 28 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2022
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