PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Consequentialism, Nice Ltd., Experience Machine
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With the question in mind, take notes, focus on the passage. Imagine that you are floating in a tank and plugged into an experience machine that lets you experience whatever you want the experience machine can read what you want. There is no need to worry about others. Assume that there are no possibilities of the experience machine malfunctioning ignore questions like, what if the experience machine breaks? . You wouldn t know that the experiences were false the experiences would match your personal preferences. Would you plug in for life? thought that the majority of people would say no. Means to bring about something else that is good. Mill it s a mistake that there are only sensory (lower) pleasures false assumption. Insofar as give pleasure and no pain. Valuable for the pleasure as a means to joy without pain.
