 Aribeth says: To test this hypothesis,De Brigard gave people a story that was, in essence, an inverted version of the experience machine story. People were told to imagine discovering that they were already in the experience machine.Someone gave you an opportunity a number of years ago to enter an experience machine... and after you agreed, he erased all of your old memories so that you came to think that you were living the life you are leading right now.When De Brigard gave subjects the original experience machine story and this modified version,he obtained a surprising result. Subjects who had been given the original story said that they would prefer to remain in reality, but subjects who were given the modified version said that they wanted to stay in the machine! Fascinating! The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life. William James Trying to speak about the ultimate reality is like sending a kiss through a messenger. Anonymous but actually i do not agree to this. i believe in sending a Kiss in any impossible fashion ....  I spot a few possible flaws in the experimental design but would need to see the papers. In any case, as often happens with popularised psychology, there is a shift from somewhat unextraordinary research findings to a level of philosophical grandeur that could only be described as cave-like in its ideological eliding of conscious awareness into a conflation of undifferentiated shadow imagery, :} I would refer you to the Art of Memetics for a stimulating contemporary discussion of human autonomy ex machina. This book is available all over the web machine for free download if you punch into the computer machine the words given by this machine to the machine decoding. And have fun! Or don't. It... |
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