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The discussion:Imagine a machine that could give you any experience (or sequence of experiences) you might desire. When connected to this experience machine, you can have the experience of writing a great poem or bringing about world peace or loving someone and being loved in return. You can experience the felt pleasures of these things, how they feel “from the inside.” You can program your experiences for tomorrow, or this week, or this year, or even for the rest of your life. If your imagination is impoverished, you can use the library of suggestions extracted from biographies and enhanced by novelists and psychologists. You can live your fondest dreams “from the inside.” Would you choose to do this for the rest of your life? If not, why not? (Other people also have the same option of using these machines which, let us suppose, are provided by friendly and trustworthy beings from another galaxy, so you need not refuse connecting in order to help others.) The question is not whether to try the machine temporarily, but whether to enter it for the rest of your life. Upon entering, you will not remember having done this; so no pleasures will get ruined by realizing they are machine-produced. Uncertainty too might be programmed by using the machine’s optional random device (upon which various preselected alternatives can depend). (From the Internet Ecyclopedia of Philosophy) Try to add more to my reply, I tought the minimum is 100 words but it turned out it is 400 words minimum. I wrote around 120 words and complete it to 400. Please try to use the same way of writing. My reply for it is below:”No I would not choose to use the experience machine for the
rest of my life. Living in a constant state of simulated experiences would make
my life a big lie as it would detach me from the authentic and genuine aspects
of reality. Life’s richness comes from the things we face like unpredictability,
challenges, and personal growth that resulted from real life experiences. The gladness
of overcoming difficulties, the genuine connection with other people and the happiness
of achieving real accomplishments would not exist in a simulated or should I
say fake world. Experiencing the ups and downs of life adds a great depth and
meaning to our existence. The experience machine might offer instant satisfaction,
but it cannot bring the authenticity and emotional depth that genuine life
experiences bring to us.”
