Discuss whether you would enter the experience machine

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Robert Nozick famously created a thought experiment known as the "Experience Machine". Watch the Nozick's short YouTube video clip "21. The Experience Machine" that includes an explanation of this thought experiment:

In this journal submission discuss whether you would 'enter' the experience machine. Would you plug in and spend your life 'hooked up to the machine'? Why or why not? Make sure to fully defend your answer.

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