Ethics and Values / Unit 7 Ethics 312 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Experience Machine
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The idea
Nozick's experience machine offers a lifetime of perfectly simulated pleasures; widespread refusal to plug in suggests well-being needs reality, not experience alone.
In practice
Offered flawless simulated achievements, most people still want to do things, be someone, and touch the actual world. The refusal is the argument.
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