Life__There_is_Nothing_Else_Like_It

Life: There is Nothing Else Like It People desire to experience the reality of living rather than a life made up of illusions and lies. However is feeling good the only thing that has value in itself' The question of whether only conscious experience can ultimately matter is one that has been explored in depth by Robert Nozick. Suppose there was 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, 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 desires' Of course, while in the tank you won't know that you're there; you'll think it's all actually happening. Others can also plug in to have the experiences they want, so there's no need to stay unplugged to serve them. For, what else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside' Nozick argues that other things do matter to us. For instance, that we actually do certain things experience, machine, people, value, nozick, world, think, reality, real, matter, life, experiences, after, things, plugged, know, conscious, choose, something, feel, being, pleasant, might, matters, make, loss, itself, even, enter, certain, actually, years, values, thing, should