Choosing the Experience Machine

In Anarchy, State, and Utopia, the philosopher Robert Nozick posed the following now-famous thought experiment: 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?

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