A guy in a black jacket and sunglasses shows up at your door one Saturday morning. He explains that there’s been a little snafu. Apparently your brain has been plugged into an experience machine and ...

Zu viel! Zu viel! O, dass ich nun erwachte! ~ Tannhäuser According to legend, the bard Tannhäuser, on his way to a competition at the Wartburg, was seduced by the goddess Hulda, the consort of Wotan.

In his famous 1974 book Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick presents his famous experience machine thought experiment. In this thought experiment, we are asked to imagine a scenario in which ...

Giant electronic computers can solve difficult mathematical or logical equations in fractions of a second, but in other ways they are mental defectives. They have no imagination or initiative. They do ...