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Philosophy

The Experience Machine and Internalism About Well-Being

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In Robert Nozick's 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, he introduced the experience machine to argue against hedonism, claiming that we want to actually do things, not just have the experience of doing them.

Why this is interesting

Imagine a machine that could give you perfectly happy experiences forever. Would you plug in? Most people say no—but why?