https://padlet.com/s1112902/83d2yb5c8s3j 1. What is the Experience Machine? What does it do to people? 2. What does Nozick want to say with this thought experiment? 3. According to your own view, how important is subjective experience in the determination of a person's level of happiness? en-us 2016-09-27 07:44:42 UTC 2025-10-29 08:48:56 UTC hello@padlet.com s1112902 https://padlet.com/s1112902/83d2yb5c8s3j/wish/126574406 1. An experience machine is used to stimulate one's brain and provide different life's experience for one while one just need to lie in a tank with electrodes attaching to one's brain. With the experience machine, one could encounter different matters and events which match to one's own interest and preference. Experience Machine is just a stimulation for people to believe that you are living in the reality.
2. Nozick tried to point out that rather than just to do what we want to do, how we develop ourselves and what are we in the process are more important. There's a line in the passage: 'Why should we be concerned only with how our time is filled, but not with what we are?'. It showed that what experience we had is not the matter instead what we have gained from the experience and how they contribute to our self-being.
3. In our point of view, the subjective experience completely determines the level of happiness of one. As we live based on the experience we obtained from everyday life, who we are was constructed by what we have gone through in our lives as well as how we dealt with the events. However, what we have to encounter may not be controlled by ourselves and they may bring various impacts to our lives. So whether the matter is positive or negative to us is determined by our own attitude. When one actively overcomes some difficulties, that may result in a positive, happy experience for him/her. Therefore, I believe the subjective experience determines the level of happiness of one.]]> 2016-09-27 07:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s1112902/83d2yb5c8s3j/wish/126574406