Question

Would you allow yourself to be connected to Nozick’s “Experience Machine” for the rest of your life? Why or why not? What do you believe this thought-experiment shows us about what we find important in life?

Answer 1

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1- Would you allow yourself to be connected to Nozick’s “Experience Machine” for the rest of your life? Why or why not?

Nozick’s “Experience Machine”-

experience machines is also known pleasure machine. it is a thought experiment which was proposed by the nozick in order to prove wrong the threory of  hedonism.according to hedonism, it is considered that people only want pleasure in thier life nothing else.they do everything to maximize thier pleasure which means if given a chance people would plug into the machine to feel the pleasure & become the one what they always wanted in thier whole life.

if i given the chance, i would not connect myself to th experience machine because-

• even though it is giving me the pleasure based on simulated reality or virtual reality but that would be fake like literally.
• according to me, pleasure is not all that matters there are other things to explore like love,happiness,family support, friends, etc.
• it is not neccessary that good feeling gives the person what they want even feeling of rejection,sadness etc also motivate people to get what they want even more stronger than before.
• in real world nothing is written or expected that is the exciting part of that but in simulation everything would exactly what we want & pre-written which is not that much exciting.
• if we connect to machine we would not know what is happening in the real world as we would be living in the fake world.

this is my personal perspective not to use the machine.it is easy to say to use the machine but it would be very difficult to decide if such machine exist.

2-  What do you believe this thought-experiment shows us about what we find important in life?

the thought-experiment shows that if we desire pleasure in our real life but it does not mean that pleasure is everything that matters.if plug into machine we experince the pleasure & when we plugs out then we realise what we have missed in the real world.

in short, thought-experiment shows that there are others things which are also matters & provide value to life without experiecing the pleasure.

in fake or simulatec world we can be anything or anyone but it does not provide the satisfaction as that is all pre-determined but if we achieve that in real world then we would be satisfied & our life value would high.