As Einstein preached that intuition (especially his own divine
intuition) was more important than logic, his zombies can test that
discovery. They should solve, by employing only their intuition,
Problem 7 ("Seeing behind the stick"), p. 47 (solution on p. 54), in
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~phys16/Textbook/ch10.pdf
The mark the zombie is going to see possesses a pawl which, released by
the back end of the stick, erects so that the stick remains trapped
between the pawl and the wall. Since the zombie sees the mark, he sees
the erect pawl as well. How long is the trapped stick? Intuition will
help the zombie to find the answer.
Pentcho Valev
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