Ack, who needs philosophy classes

Well, I don't really see the problem, but I may be missing something. Isn't it relatively obvious that you should always choose both? There is no way to loose then, because you will always have the amount available, no matter WHAT is in there. The game would be more interesting if the non-transparent box could also have a -$1000 in it. Making it a very hard choice indeed.

But what about those predictions? Say that there is indeed the possibility of the -$1000 in one of the boxes. What if the prediction guy, told you, that you would choose both, and that you would then have nothing. Would you choose both? And if not, would you still have chosen one box if the prediction guy HADN'T told you? Maybe, the prediction guy MADE you choose one box, and therefore made you win that $1000 instead of nothing. If that is true, did he know that and did he do you a favor? Hmm, now that is something to think about.


As for the tree thingie, isn't it so that the tree did NOT fall, since there is nothing and absolutely nothing to fall for. BUT when you get there, it is lying on the ground without really having fallen, since noone could have noticed it?
Isn't the world the world how YOU percieve it, and is the world the same for everyone else? Do you perceive the world differently from others. And do your perceptions change or even make the world to what it is? Would this then result in the tree not falling, because noone was there to "make" it fall by percieving it, and would anyone coming after the falling the tree actually perceive that the tree had fallen, or is it just lying on the ground without having fallen over

Hmm, philosophical debates can get very sticky indeed....