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The Experience Machine Robert Nozick Analysis

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Suppose you are able to experience whatever you desired in life, but the only way to experience this desire is to undergo the Experience Machine. With this machine, you are floating in a tank with electrodes attached to your brain, while in the tank you won’t know you’re in there you just think it’s actually happening. Would you plug in, if you have access to an experience machine? After reading, “The Experience Machine,” written by Robert Nozick, I see a connection between the reading we read previously about Hedonism. Hedonism is basically something that brings pleasure and happiness to someone. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the thing that brings one person's happiness will bring another person the same happiness. Each person seeks their
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