{"id":98154,"date":"2019-11-05T05:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/david-pearce-experience-machines-and-hedonic-treadmills"},"modified":"2019-11-05T05:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T13:02:30","slug":"david-pearce-experience-machines-and-hedonic-treadmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/david-pearce-experience-machines-and-hedonic-treadmills","title":{"rendered":"David Pearce \u2014 Experience Machines and Hedonic Treadmills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxBvNbuYud0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026consider Robert Nozick\u2019s thought-experiment in conjunction with Felipe De Brigard\u2019s inverse experience machine argument: \u201cIf you like it, does it matter if it\u2019s real?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Does Nozick\u2019s experience machine prove anything?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps consider Robert Nozick\u2019s thought-experiment in conjunction with Felipe De Brigard\u2019s inverse experience machine argument: \u201cIf you like it, does it matter if it\u2019s real?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For sure, many subjects say they wouldn\u2019t plug into Nozick\u2019s Experience Machine; but conversely, many of these same respondents claim they wouldn\u2019t want to unplug from an Experience Machine if told their existing lives were based on a lie. In short, maybe what is really being measured is not simply our (lack of) commitment to hedonism or realism, but rather status quo bias.<\/p>\n<p>Even self-avowed classical utilitarians may balk on realising what their own ethics entails.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/david-pearce-experience-machines-and-hedonic-treadmills\">Continue reading \u201cDavid Pearce \u2014 Experience Machines and Hedonic Treadmills\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026consider Robert Nozick\u2019s thought-experiment in conjunction with Felipe De Brigard\u2019s inverse experience machine argument: \u201cIf you like it, does it matter if it\u2019s real?\u201d Does Nozick\u2019s experience machine prove anything? Perhaps consider Robert Nozick\u2019s thought-experiment in conjunction with Felipe De Brigard\u2019s inverse experience machine argument: \u201cIf you like it, does it matter if it\u2019s real?\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,30,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}