The mention of "superduper neuroscientists" always cracked me up! Plus it demonstrated Nozick's sense of humor. A finely written line.

I love Nozick's experience machine! One of the first thought experiments I was introduced to as an undergrad. Sam Harris needs to watch this video ;)

I've just been reading Nozick's Anarchy, State Utopia recently so this has been esp helpful! (= Nozick is extremely intellgent I found his political theory at times to be troubling but always challenging , well written and brimming with good argumentation. The experience machine is a classic! As Always thanx for the good content (=

I sort of envy him. He was a student of Sydney Morgenbesser. "Socratic Puzzles" is quite interesting also.

greg you are awesome! such optimism and open ended threadings in thought, ur great, don't mind these close minded people that thrive on pessimistic and Narcissistic thought

I enjoy your videos there really helpful

As i see it, the geniality of Nozick is in taking what were certain lcertain frameworks and assumptions of philosophers of diffrent areas and turning them on its head , wether is in A,S&U or his other works

Really neat, never heard of him before.

Nozik is brilliant whether we agree with him or not!

As usual, a top notch content on philosophy. May I give you a sugestion for a next topic? Why not some classes about modal logic? Thank you. Please, keep up the amazing work.

Happy 4th Dr Sadler

Danke!!!

Nozick is way cooler than I thought

Hello Dr. Sadler, just coming back from a debilitating injury and I'll be contacting you later to pick up on where we left off..... anyways, it's an interesting topic however, I'd like to think that we are the EXPERIENCE CROPS for the gods to pluck and taste and relive through. Just like the plants have no option but to grow given the light and resources, we have no choice but to experience given the obstacles and desires to go on. That each experience and moment that we go through is the spice and herbs that flavor our lives and the more interesting they are, the more enticing they are to the gods or whoever that we owe these experiences to. The most anti-theistic (or atheistic) thing to do is to have the most mundane life possible... hence Buddhist munks that lowkey they want everyone to understand that the treasures/pleasures you seek is just a carrot dangling in front of you that leads to your death which is the cherry on top for the gods who gets to..(no pun intended) cherry pick the experiences to relive as. So in a sense, we are not putting on gogglessomething to experience the "Experience Machine" but we are the batteries for the Experience Machines... another reference to the Matrix.

It'd be hollow experiences, devoid of anything. It doesn't contribute to real skills, no experience is earned. Your experiences would be illusions. So early versions of the machine wouldn't be accurate. And thinking you are reading a good book =/= reading at all. You would stagnate in other environments and gain emotional dependency. Also for example *thinking* you are reading a good book, even if its a bad text or no text at all, doesn't suddenly give you an accurate self-impression. Like you cannot write a good novel for *real* people, just because you had the experience of 80 years of writing. It could be absolutely trash writing but it *fools* you enough so thats *good enough*. You would turn into a vegetable sucking up dopamine unable to recognize reality. It has to have a modicum of interaction, otherwise its essentially egotistical porn. Also thx for comparing it to drugs, because thats what it'd degenerate into. Full dive VR is much better because theres interaction and its authentic impressions. To alter your own impressions of events is the epitome of corruption delusion and stagnation. The result machine would make humans irrelevant. I don't think its about *living* specifically I think its about furthering our position because of biological habit, but others having fight or flight response would choose flight, and escapism. Or perhaps narcissists wouldn't care and would use the machine anyways, furthering their narcissism which harms their interactions with others outside the machines while simultaneously assuming their superiority, and reducing their functionality in the real world.