What da hell is 'The Experience Machine?'

'The Experience Machine' is a thought experiment created by philospher and Harvard professor Rober Nozick.

This experiment was created as objection to the moral theory of Hedonism: the idea that something is good if and only if it produces pleasure [and minimizes pain.]

Here's the experiment:

Imagine a machine that could give us all desirable and pleasurable experiences that we could possibly dream of (like the machine in the matrix.) We would not be able to tell the experiences were not totally authentic.

Here's the kicker:

If given the choice, would you, or anyone else for that matter,choose the machine over real life??

He concludes that not many people, if any, would chose the experience machine over real life. Thus, people clearly care about more in life than simply the experience of pleasure. ;-)

So what do you think? And what would you do??

And what else is there 2 care about other than experiences??? Hmmmmm....

[....I named my blog this simply because I like things that force us to step and think outside of our little boxes.

I am also a philosophy major so this is what I do!

Anywho...

Its soooooo much positive stuff out there for people to invest time in but instead people choose 2 waste time on PETTY stupid crap i.e. gossip, childishness, bitchassness etc etc. So Im encouraging people to get out and live life because its a beautiful thing. Dont let anyone or anything put a damper on what God made you to be: an INDIVIDUAL.]

Peace & Love.

--eSPy