Except that you can't because you might have Z coloured eyes and although you can see that the others don't have Z coloured eyes, they don't know that...
But since they do not know their eye colour they might all have unique eye colours and none of them can deduce their eye colour at all. Guess and hope...
If you want to get better at stuff like this, you need to learn from the master, Raymond Smullyan.His puzzles are wonderful and such talent as I have ...
Focus on what everyone does not know which in each case is only the colour of their own eyes. Now as soon as anyone does know, they are gone, and you ...
You are a logical person who does not know their eye colour; so is everyone else. You know everyone's eye colour except your own, and everyone else kn...
I'm done with arguing here, but looking around there are plenty of wrong answers about, but here is a fairly decent run through. https://xkcd.com/solu...
No. It does depend on the guru saying so unless everyone already knows that everyone already knows at the same time, as I suggested above and you igno...
Did they all arrive on the same day, and do they all know that they all know that they arrived on the same day? Also I think the brown eyed people wou...
Now that is indeed tricky. It seems like no new information, because they could all see multiple blue eyes already, yet after 99 nights they knew some...
Things go better with coke. Wealth in the hands of the wealthy trickles down to the poor. Poverty is caused by immigrants. Hatred is the best cure for...
Well I do imagine that Trump and his followers are anti-woke because I hear them say so. So then I look at the policies being followed and the institu...
I would put it this way. Wokism is giving a fuck about someone else's difficulties in a complex society. One is 'awakened' to the problems of being di...
Obviously God didn't do that; instead He will have suspended time, rather as one pauses a video. And then brought the chosen people out of the frame o...
Byker is a district of Newcastle on Tyne. I used to play the tune as a dance. The time signature is 9/8, but divided as three measures of 2 beats and ...
And apropos of nothing at all, here is an amusing sketch about gentlemen of Yorkshire extraction in conversation.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKH...
I particularly like the use of "no offence" here. It is, no offence, a particularly egregious hypocrisy that so blatantly denies itself and pre-empts ...
There is nothing evil about taking food if you are starving. Rather it is evil to refuse to share food when others are starving. At this point propert...
For sure, people can be evil, and sometimes they can be very powerful too, and 'get away with it'. But this is not a basis for generalising that every...
Yes. Your question removes all the give and take of social interaction and mutual dependence, and then suggests that humans in that condition would be...
I'm reflecting on why people in an impossible thought experiment would be more real and deep than moms and dads and kids in this world. And I've decid...
My mother was named Olive, and the Good Lord removed her from this vale of tears many years since. But she looked less green and shapeless than that p...
You put your words into God's mouth, and I'll put mine. I will not say that infants are already guilty. Rather I will say "The Lord giveth, and the Lo...
God kills us all, innocent and guilty alike. You can thank Him for the limited gift of temporary existence, or berate him for His cruelty and injustic...
Goats do not eat lavender. Nor do they eat daffodils, tomatoes, potatoes, lupins, poppies and several other things. Their greatness was all propaganda...
A different perspective: Head in the clouds and head in the sand both leave your ass exposed. Keep your ass covered and under your tit, your feet on t...
I thought this was interesting, not so much as an update on the condition of Russia, but more as a warning to the US about where it is headed. https:/...
The best thing about Americans is their enthusiasm. Some people find studies in evolution a little dry. Not this guy; he brings a whole ocean of excit...
Absolutely! but what has changed is not Pluto, but the way we use the term "planet". Language evolves and thereby eternal truths can change. A bachelo...
Have you considered the possibility that you are not depressed, but that rather it is that the world is a bit shit? I have to say you don't come over ...
There is no time before time began, or after time ends, by definition. It's not that it's unknown, it's that there can be no such thing; these are lim...
Good philosophy eats itself, and can always be summed up as "The worm turns."A philosophical tradition is thus a daisy chain of linked worms. {Hands u...
Thou and I, of course are independent minded, and make up our own minds about what we want or don't want. But "the public" are so easily swayed by the...
Have to disagree with this. Take a living human body as a typical fairly stable dynamic environment. Around half the cells in the body are non-human s...
Ends are things that can be found in space and time The end of the day, the ends of a piece of string, the end of my life. (I know you rider) The end ...
Have you thought about cooperation in nature, apart from between humans? Bees and flowers, the symbiotic relationship that produces lichens, ant colon...
Some paleoanthropology for your delectation; focussed for a change on China and the far East. A gentle ramble, but with some interesting science and g...
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