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The Experience Machine

1 The Experience Machine by Robert Nozick (1974, 1989) Excerpt from Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) 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. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this Machine for life, preprogramming your life's experiences? If you are worried about missing out on desirable experiences, we can suppose that business enterprises have researched thoroughly the lives of many others. You can pick and choose from their large library or smorgasbord of such experiences, selecting your life's experiences for, say, the next two years.

important, just that the one thing that is important, pleasure, comes in different grades. … By a pleasure or a pleasurable feeling I mean a feeling that is desired (partly) because of its own felt qualities. The feeling is not desired wholly because of what it leads to or enables you to do or because of some injunction it fulfills. If

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