PHIL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consequentialism, Experience Machine, Political Philosophy
7 Aug 2014
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: the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for intuitions conscious reasoning: problem: nozick and his experience machine", not a good way to live life (experience machine, non hedonistic mental state utility: maximize the pleasures of your mental state, whatever that mental state is be it achieved from reading poetry or pulling grass, doing things that may not even be enjoyable just so your life may become more meaningful", you can be plugged in to a experience machine to achieve the amount of happiness you want, but then you get robbed of certain experiences one should go through, experiences are beyond just experiencing a state of pleasure, preference satisfaction: utility is maximized by satisfying preferences, if your reflecting on your life, what is it that makes your life good, adaptive preferences: preferences that your are influenced into preferring because everyone else prefers them as well.
