Editing Newcomb's paradox (section)

==Consciousness and simulation==
Newcomb's paradox can also be related to the question of [[machine consciousness]], specifically if a perfect [[brain simulation|simulation]] of a person's brain will generate the consciousness of that person.<ref>{{cite arXiv |first=R. M. |last=Neal |title=Puzzles of Anthropic Reasoning Resolved Using Full Non-indexical Conditioning |eprint=math.ST/0608592 |year=2006 }}</ref> Suppose we take the predictor to be a machine that arrives at its prediction by simulating the brain of the chooser when confronted with the problem of which box to choose. If that simulation generates the consciousness of the chooser, then the chooser cannot tell whether they are standing in front of the boxes in the real world or in the virtual world generated by the simulation in the past. The "virtual" chooser would thus tell the predictor which choice the "real" chooser is going to make, and the chooser, not knowing whether they are the real chooser or the simulation, should take only the second box.