Would you opt for a life with no pain?

Posted on September 7, 2019 by agogo22

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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2 Responses to Would you opt for a life with no pain?

  1. Stella, oh, Stella's avatar Stella, oh, Stella says:
    September 7, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    That doesn’t really sound appealing to me.

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  2. Stella, oh, Stella's avatar Stella, oh, Stella says:
    September 8, 2019 at 8:32 am

    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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