Riddle

Wouldn't all the monks assume that they're the one that's sick if they see no one else ill or if the other one who is ill hasn't left? Hence all the monks would leave anyway as they believe they were the one that was ill?

 

No, they're thinking logically. Say monk Fred sees just 6 others with the mark, but nobody leaves. If Fred's clear each infected monk will only see 5 marks. It's not until 7 days have passed with nobody leaving that Fred (and the 6 with marks) can work out there must be 7 marks in all, and if Fred, Bill, Sue, Tom, Hank, Marvin and Gaye can only see 6 then Fred, Bill, Sue, Tom, Hank, Marvin and Gaye must have the 7th, so they all know they themselves are affected, get up and leave.

 

Whatever..

 

That type of argument still makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Monk Bob is looking around and sees Monk Tom and Monk Chris both have crosses on their heads. However, the second day, Monk Tom and Monk Chris don't leave. Now unknown to Monk Bob, he is actually infected himself. But of course he has no way to verify this. He just simply thinks that Monk Tom and Chris have not realized that they are infected. So then why couldn't Tom and Chris be doing the same - seeing others with the cross and just think they haven't realized they have it yet. Why must they automatically think "Well, there must be 'X' number of crosses because otherwise they would have left! LOLWTFBBQ!!!" Why can't their "logical thinking" be "oh, well they have it but they just haven't figured it out yet. But I'm safe." Why does their thinking have to entail "OMG! They didn't leave because there must be 'X+1' number of crosses, which means i r pwn3d!! noooooz!!"

I'm quite tired so I may not have explained that scenario extremely well, but it still makes no sense to me (even when I'm not tired).

 

Guess i'll be going then, hope it isn't a painful death

 

lmfao, nicely done, and i agree 100%, if me & bacon both had it, most of bit would catch the disease before we left using that logic.

 

Yeah but you still wouldn't know the exact amount of bit-tech users just that everyone left because of some disease...

 

No, because all the other monks would see two people with a cross.

Again, really, the logic is sound.

 

You have to remember that logical to one person is not always logical to another.

 

Well, that's what was missing! I was assuming they were average people....

 

He didnt state that they was all members of mensa and use logic like Vulcans

 

yeah, but the monks couldn't use digital cameras and the internet to cheat.