Philosophy - Ethics
BBC Ideas. (2018, November 15). The Philosophy of Hedonism BBC Ideas. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBKrTh1Jb98&feature=emb_rel_pause
Robert Nozick (Experience Machine)
- Nozick, R. (1974). The Experience Machine. Retrieved from https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/Nozick1.pdf
What matters other than how people's experiences feel "from the inside"?
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any
experience that you desired. - Landau, I. (2019). Pleasure or Reality The Experience Machine Debate. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/finding-meaning-in-imperfect-world/201903/pleasure-or-reality-the-experience-machine-debateIn his famous 1974 book Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick presents his famous experience machine thought experiment. In this thought experiment, we are asked to imagine a scenario in which technology is so advanced that we can plug ourselves into a virtual reality machine for a very long time.
The Experience Machine
TEDx Talks. (2018, April 17). The Experience Machine - Simulated Reality & Happiness |Saleem Haider | TEDx Valencia High School. Retrieved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiHdlR1QFWo&feature=emb_logofrom
Robert Nozick (Experience Machine)
- Hindriks, F & Douven, I. (2017). Nozick’s experience machine: An empirical study. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2017.1406600Many philosophers deny that happiness can be equated with pleasurable experiences. Nozick introduced an experience machine thought experiment to support the idea that happiness requires pleasurable experiences that are “in contact with reality.”
- Andreicut, D. ( 2020). To Connect Or Not To Connect?.Retrieved from https://philosophynow.org/issues/122/To_Connect_Or_Not_To_Connect
It is the 8th November 2016. The days are getting shorter, the air is getting chillier. Autumn is here to stay, and a carpet of red, yellow and beige leaves has settled over the city. You wake up before your alarm at the sound of a news blast, and breathe a deep sigh of relief as you look down at the screen of your smartphone: ‘Hillary Clinton secures White House election, narrowly defeating Republican nominee Donald Trump.’
