Richard_Kennaway comments on Reflexive decision theory is an unsolved problem

[Richard_Kennaway]

My anecdote of a recent experience of decision makes an interesting contrast with all verbal discussion of decision theory.

Here is another:

It appeared to Winston that a long time passed before he answered. For a moment he seemed even to have been deprived of the power of speech. His tongue worked soundlessly, forming the opening syllables first of one word, then of the other, over and over again. Until he had said it, he did not know which word he was going to say. “No,” he said finally.