Students watch a clip from the film "The Matrix" and analyze philosophical questions about the relationship between appearance and reality. The film "The Matrix" is based on Plato’s …

Bad Dreams, Evil Demons, and the Experience Machine 13 arth and have subjugated humanity in the process. These creatures have fed Neo a simulation that he ouldn't possibly help but take …

This suggests that the experience machine thought experiment, in addition to being central to the debate on hedonism about well-being, touches other topical debates, such as the desirability …

The experience machine or pleasure machine is a thought experiment put forward by philosopher Robert Nozick in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. [1] It is an attempt to refute ethical …

Oct 6, 2014 · The example I think that best matches this thought experiment, in modern cinema, is that of The Matrix film trilogy. The whole concept of the movie trilogy is that the world …

We can imagine that a matrix simulates the entire physics of a world, keeping track of every last particle throughout space and time. (Later, we will look at ways in which this set-up might be …

Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience that you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel …

Apr 14, 2015 · Here, philosopher Christopher Grau discusses some of the parallels between the scenario described in The Matrix and similar situations imagined by Descartes and other more …

The Experience Machine challenges us to think about the importance of living an authentic life versus one that is artificially perfect. Simulated Reality: Like the plot in movies such as “The …

The parallels between Nozick’s experience machine and the Matrix are many. Both involve floating in a tank, both directly stimulate the neurons in one’s brain, and both produce experi …