Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life. The only catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind. Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald explore Robert Nozick’s thought experiment that he called the Experience Machine. [Directed by Avi Ofer, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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That doesn’t really sound appealing to me.
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When I reflect more about it: some people do that without being plugged in anywhere, and it has a fancy medical name and is considered a “condition” that has to be cured (the big profit goes to the pharma industry). Now, with this thought game, people would be put artificially into the selfsame “condition”, because somebody would make profit from it (private companies? Also the Pharma industry?)
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