Philosopher Robert Nozick proposed the following thought experiment:
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience 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, pre-programming your life's experiences?... Of course, while in the tank, you won't know that you're there; you'll think it's all actually happening. . . . Would you plug in? What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
So /r9k/, would you?
>>24597284
yep... i would
yes, what the fuck are you talking about, like if this was a bad thing
Yes, if the things I wrote in the tank could be communicated to the real world. But I reckon that's out of the question.
Otherwise no, I have stuff to do here before I end it.
So..... Total Recall?
>>24597312
Oh, I, OP, agree, I personally think Nozick was a hack. He indeed believed it would be a bad thing.
>>24597339
Never seen it, but like the matrix, but a paradise.
Like this or what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSLDdjIOJg
Hell YES dude
>>24597284
No, I wouldn't. A comforting delusion is still a delusion. I would rather be miserable in the truth than comfortable in a lie.
>>24597284
Yes, as long as I don't have to stay hooked up permanently. Just, you know, go in once in a while and feel tfw gf.
>>24597667
Really, is that so?
>>24597806
Oh I didn't see the part that said "for life" -- should have made that a little more prominent, OP.
very original proposal, mate
>>24597886
It was written in 1974.
I accept instrumentality
>>24597667
and how would you know?
the machine is programmed so you can never know if its an illusion or not.
you could literally be a 2085 psychology student writing a thesis on isolation and depression and doing his reasearch living the life of a 2015 NEET.
if its all you know its not a lie for you, its the only truth you know.
>>24597284
Couldn't that machine make me smarter/help me accomplish things? For example if you're in the machine and train in kung fu and do it over a sustained period of time surely the technical knowledge you acquired while you were in the tank doesn't just disappear.
