Develop your ideas about the short thought experiment by Robert Nozick titled “The Experience Machine” (The Ethical Life, 21-24). There are two parts to this assignment.
First Part
Should you plug into the experience machine for life? Why or why not? Explain your reasons.
Second Part
Think about the reasons you gave in the first part. What do those reasons reveal about your basic values, or about what you value intrinsically?
Are you a hedonist, like Epicurus and Mill? Is pleasure the only thing worth desiring for its own sake? Why or why not? Explain what you mean.