2. Nozick Experience Machine by https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac 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 07:48:10 UTC 2016-11-26 15:39:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Forum Chair's Answer janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126574906 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 07:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126574906 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126772294 An experience machine is a machine that allows you to experience what you desire without actually working to achieve. It has electrodes connecting to your body while you lie inside a tank, being in a state of trance where you are given a stimulation that your surrounding environment may be of something you previously dreamed of being in, or an achievement you were working hard in in a tranquil manner. The person can control the setting and happenings of the experience to match with his/her expectations.

-Janice Ng ]]> 2016-09-27 18:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126772294 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126778049 Nozick proved with his thought experiment that experience is not of prime importance; instead, the development and outcome of a person after experimenting the "desired experience" should be the utmost objective of the entire process. After a person gets into the Experience Machine and experienced his/her experience, how the person is like (eg. personality) will not be shown throughout the process, therefore providing no benefit to one's growth or one's being in long-term effect. The Experience Machine can only provide temporary happiness and a one-time wish. It is also impossible for the person to go deeper in a pensive mood as everything would purely be on a surface level, unable to achieve the ultimate goal of "reflection" after experiencing something.

-Janice Ng]]> 2016-09-27 18:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126778049 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126787500 A person's level of happiness is related to a person's mental process, and mental processes are all subjective, therefore I believe that subjective experience greatly determines a person's level of happiness. I think that anything big or small that happens to a person would be subjectively experiencing the effect inside their mind. However, it is up to the person's ability to determine whether they should feel positive or negative towards the incident. When we experience something, we will create a mental impression and sensation that only happen to our "selves". Everyone would have a different mental impression and sensation towards the same incident. It is a feeling that is not shared with anyone else besides your self, therefore it has a lot to do with a person's level of happiness as different people would have their own particular way of facing it. Person A may feel neutral towards a certain experiment, but person B may feel negative towards the same experiment. Everyone's subjective mental opinions will determine a person's level of happiness as it depends on how much they value that specific experiment and how great the effect is to the person.

-Janice Ng]]> 2016-09-27 18:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126787500 Question to forum chair janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126791723 If the Experience Machine allowed people to reflect upon the experiment after the entire experience, would it be a good idea to use it then? Or would there still be other drawbacks that restrain people from fully experiencing an experiment compared to experiencing it in reality?

-Janice Ng]]> 2016-09-27 19:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126791723 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126910269 An experience machine is a machine used to stimulate your brain to give you a virtual reality while you float in a tank with electrodes connected to your head. When using it, the machine makes you feel like you're actually living a whole different life, a life that you desire. In the virtual reality, you won't realize that the experiences are all arranged and set up.

Wan Chee Ching Cherry]]> 2016-09-28 11:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126910269 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126911875 In my opinion, subjective experience is a crucial factor in determining a person's level of happiness. Happiness is subjective. It is all about one's internal / personal feelings. A person has to be positive and satisfied with your life to be truly happy. It is not what people say that makes a person happy, it's what he/she feels towards different life experiences that makes him/her happy. For example, even if everyone says a person is happy, it doesn't mean that he/she really is if he/she actually feels depressed all the time. It is a person's feeling that determines whether he/she is happy or not.

Wan Chee Ching Cherry

]]> 2016-09-28 11:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/126911875 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/127829473 What Nozick's trying to say is that who and what we become after experiencing things are the most important thing. As said in the passage, whatever experience is provided, we are not the one experiencing it. It is the machine that is experiencing for us. That is why who or what we are does not matter to the experience. If that's so,  then the experience is meaningless. 

Wan Chee Ching Cherry

]]> 2016-10-03 10:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/127829473 (forum chair's comment - Lam WingTung) https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/127874638 Regarding to Janice's question, I think there still have disadvantages for the experience machine. The most problematic part of the machine is that the experience from the machine are not the real feelings we had and real world we contacted to. So no matter the experiences are reflective, they are still disconnected from our reality.]]> 2016-10-03 13:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/127874638 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128082361 I agree with the chair forum and the comments left by my group mates here. An individuals happiness is completely determined by their subjective experience. 

Cho Sung Eun Sam]]> 2016-10-04 08:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128082361 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128083431 I feel like the experience machine is just the person running away from their own reality. We all can achieve our dreams if we work hard and put in the effort. With the experience machine you are putting yourself in a virtual reality which does not exist and when you wake up you will realize it was all false, what is the point of that?

Resh]]> 2016-10-04 08:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128083431 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128085405 I personally question that whether the experience machine is a ethical experiment to conduct on people. 

Cho Sung Eun Sam]]> 2016-10-04 08:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128085405 janice_ngwingyee https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128085857 No matter how "real" the experience machine may be, at the end of the day it is only a simulation of all the preferred and desired attributes in one's life. It is not real, I believe that there is a part of us that want to acquire truth and actively look for the truth in our lives. 

Cho Sung Eun Sam]]> 2016-10-04 08:40:42 UTC https://padlet.com/janice_ngwingyee/auagrnubsjac/wish/128085857