Argumentative Essay On The Experience Machine

Intuitions are divergent The contemporary philosophy, “If you like it, does it matter it’s real?” is introduced by Flipe de Brigard. In that scholastic article, Brigard hightlighed the weak fact from Nozick’s statement, “The Experience Machine.” Nozick attentively against the idea of Hedonism; pleasure is the most important intrinsic good in one’s life, by presenting the philosophy of “The Experience Machine.” Nozick’s argument can be simply presumed as if pleasure is the most important matter in our lives, we would plug into the thought experience machine. Nonetheless, we wouldn’t have inclination to plug-in. Thus, pleasure isn’t the only thing that matter to us. At this point, Brigard showed that not all the people think the way Nozick claimed

Here, Brigard gave us three scenarios – Neutral vignette, Negative vignette, and Positive vignette. In Neutral vignette scenarios, we are not told that how is our lives outside the machine. Negative vignette setting is the real life is the prisoner in the prison. Positive vignette is we are the multimillionaire artists living in Monaco. But there are only two options, “Remain connected” or “Go back to reality.” According to the result of this experiment, we can see that only one tenth of people from the Negative vignette said they want to go back to reality. In the Positive setting, one half of people said they still want to remain in the machine. Even in the Neutral scenario, only 54% of people said they would like to go back to real lives. Therefore, we can see that preferring to stay in the reality isn’t the only reason as Nozick claimed. The other factor that people care about is the quality of the experiences. Brigard explained this situation as “ Expect for the Neutral condition not only did participants not seem to put all the weight on reality alone, but they also seemed to care about the quality fo their real life versus the quality of their virtual—albeit familiar – life” (Brigard, p. 48). Comparing the results the

48). The Second Neutral vignette is people can choose either remain connected or disconnected, but the additional information is the life outside isn’t the same as the life pre-programmed in the machine so far. The result showed 59% of participants wanted to remain plugged in, the rest participants wanted to go back to the real lives. Again, this final result proved that desire to contact with reality isn’t the only intuition that people have. Moreover, I want to point out one more thing that is avoiding the status quo, no matter what good lives the machine can offer to people such lives are definitely