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Let's make a hypothetical problem, shall we?

There is a cat in a blank room. In the room, there are 2 boxes evenly spaced from each other, and both are the same distance away from the cat. Now, there is catnip placed on both of the boxes in the exact same concentratioos and have the same amount of attraction from the cat. The cat is placed on one end of the room and the boxes with the catnip are placed on the other end of the room. Remember, the room is blank, and there is nothing but the cat and the boxes with catnip on them.

Which box does the cat go to first?

>> No.2105660
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2105660

There is insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

>> No.2105657

>>2105652
*concentrations

>> No.2105662

>>2105660
How so?

>> No.2105670

i have to agree there is insufficient information, the chances are equal and the result will be inconsequential. i suggest more weed.

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2105689

The cat doesn't necessarily go to either of the boxes. It doesn't know they contain something desirable unless the boxes leak an odor.

Austic checking?

>> No.2105694

>>2105670
>>2105660
What information is lacking? The basic question is which box will the cat go to first if each box has the exact same amounts of catnip on them.

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2105698

The cat doesn't necessarily go to either of the boxes. It doesn't know they contain something desirable unless the boxes leak an odor.

Autism checking?

>> No.2105703

Did anyone read the part about the catnip?

>> No.2105705

He will go for the left one, because we read from left to right. Unless he's an Arabic cat.

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>>2105694
Otherwise, assuming we can neglect all the other states the cat could be in and restrict the degrees of freedom to only one of two possible outcomes, going to box A or box B, it has a 50-50 chance.

>> No.2105740

There has to be some theory that shares the basic concept with this.

>> No.2105768

>>2105660
I see what you did there.

A fun read for anybody who hasn't seen it before: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

>> No.2105807

>>2105740

well as far as I know in the case of humans, the norm is the right side.

and you guys say psichology is not a science, GTFO

>> No.2105898

/sci/, I am dissapoint.

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>>2105660
Asimov, you're trying to hard.

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>>2105660
Asimov, you're trying too hard.

>> No.2106576

Probably the box on the right.

>> No.2106630

Neurons are incredibly unreliable. Barring any other inputs, the cat will go for either one with approximately equal probability, but due to the wiring in it's brain it could be biased in one way.

>> No.2106655

cat have a prefered side, like humans being left or right handed

>> No.2106656

>>2105652
Neither? Being in a vacuum (nothing else in the room right?) he cares more about his impending death than the boxes which he can't smell.

Just a guess, I'm pretty drunk.

>> No.2106663

It's like the slit experiment. If you watch it, hell take one, otherwise hell take both. Either way, cat gets high on 'nip.

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2106673

There never was a cat and the catnip is, eventually, the desire of OP for his mother.

>> No.2106676

>>2106663
Only if he's a qcat.

>> No.2106700

Well, for one, you said nothing about the cat other than that it's a cat.
Does it like catnip?
Does its nose work?
Do its eyes work?
Can it move?
Is it even alive?
(There's a lot more, but I think you get the point.)

>> No.2106717

Would that be maternal or sexual?
;) ;)