The Experience machine...

salami1212

salami1212

salami1212

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Ok, the idea is this..

You program in the machine your perfect lifestyle. You can be whoever you want to be, have the best traits and attributes, be a millionaire, whatever.. When you step into the machine you won't be able to understand that its just in your head. Once your in theres no turning back and you will die in the machine when you get old..

Now would you get in?
 
a bit Total Recall/Matrix ish , if a bit creepier.

As to the question, no i wouldn't. It's not real, its purely fictional. Knowing that i don't think i would do it.
 
Would there be any difference between it and rl?

ie would people act weird or would they be indistinguishable.

if there isn't any difference sure.


Demoniser said:
a bit Total Recall/Matrix ish , if a bit creepier.
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He's been reading/watching red dwarf :p



Also do you starve to death/die of disease (like better than life) or does the machine look after you till you die of old age?
 
If I did not know it wasn't real, could I live in perfection for the rest of my life? Yes.
Could my brain tolerate perfection? Probably not. Isn't that why the matrix failed ;)
Who is really to say we are not in some elaborate simulation now, all figments of my imagination. Maybe I am God, living out the whole reality's existance in my own head.
We can be self-aware only.
 
No you are perfectly fine while strapped in to the machine, you will never wake up and the day you die in real life you die in your dream. The experience is real, nothings different to real life apart from obviously what you have programmed in
 
Here's another question to go along with the OP.

If you opt not to go in the machine how do you actually know that this is the case. You wouldn't ever remember due to all previous memories being wiped. For all you know your original self selected not choosing to go in the machine as an ideal life.

:p
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
If I did not know it wasn't real, could I live in perfection for the rest of my life? Yes.
Could my brain tolerate perfection? Probably not. Isn't that why the matrix failed ;)
Who is really to say we are not in some elaborate simulation now, all figments of my imagination. Maybe I am God, living out the whole reality's existance in my own head.
We can be self-aware only.
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Who says it has to be perfection?

it could just be overall for your best interest but still with difficulties and challenges/defeats and losses.
 
no. without getting all hippy about things, you need your dreams. most people who've had everything have self destructed

apart from simon cowell, he has an awesome life. unfortuanetly it's one i'll never experience but hey, there's more to life than millions and veyrons
 
cm1179 said:
no. without getting all hippy about things, you need your dreams. most people who've had everything have self destructed

apart from simon cowell, he has an awesome life. unfortuanetly it's one i'll never experience but hey, there's more to life than millions and veyrons
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why would you chose to have everything though?

You can chose the scenario you could make it so you struggle to build your own business etc, you succeed and you fail and maybe have to start all over again but you will get there.

it doesn;t just have to be "heres a bazillion pounds".
 
You don't need a machine to live a dream, you just need money ... or something

Almost anything (except real love some would say) can be bought
 
to the people who said you would go into the machine, dont you think its pretty selfish as you wont be contributing to anything but yourself.. what about your family?
 
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