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How is escaping into fantasy television or playing video games functionally any different then Nozick's experience machine? Sure few would choose to spend their entire life in the hedonism machine, but many Americans willingly would spend 1/4th to 1/3rd of their life engaged in tv/video-games etc.

How is escaping into fantasy television or playing video games functionally any different then Nozick's experience machine? Sure few would choose to spend their entire life in the hedonism machine, but many Americans willingly would spend 1/4th to 1/3rd of their life engaged in tv/video-games etc.

I personally would love the opportunity to spend time in such a machine rather then watch netflix or some other form of leisure, why did Nozick make it in all or nothing dichotomy when its clear most people would gladly spend a chunk of their life in the machine, just not their entire life if given the choice/
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Nozick's 'experience machine' is short-hand for Nozick's thought experiment over the choice between everday reality and simulated reality, not about such a machine itself. The point of the experience machine thought experiment is to show that there is something other than pleasure which people value, contributing to their well-being, and thereby an argument against ethical hedonism. It's not to show that pleasure, derived from escapist fantasy, isn't valuable or contributes to well-being or something else. It's not a categorical argument against simulated experiences.