# Experience Machine **Domain:** Philosophy / Simulation / Value **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Robert Nozick]], [[Transition Consent]], [[Simulated World]], [[Human Agency]] --- ## Definition The **experience machine** is Robert Nozick's thought experiment asking whether a person would choose a perfectly satisfying simulated life over contact with an independently unfolding world. ## Corpus Context The experiment separates pleasure from authorship, achievement and relation. It connects directly to [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] and to the constitutional requirement that entry into a fitted world remain voluntary and reversible. ## See Also [[Robert Nozick]], [[Transition Consent]], [[Simulated World]], [[Human Agency]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "In the future, when our minds merge with artificial agents and also integrate various electronic prostheses, for each of our own real lives, we will create multiple simulated lives." > **— Clifford Pickover**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Simulation/Merged Minds Could Live Multiple Simulated Lives by Clifford Pickover|Merged Minds Could Live Multiple Simulated Lives by Clifford Pickover]] > "I think that from being a little independent thinking machine I am becoming a tiny part inside a far vaster thinking machine." > **— Susan Blackmore**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Simulation/We Are Becoming Parts of a Larger Thinking Machine by Susan Blackmore|We Are Becoming Parts of a Larger Thinking Machine by Susan Blackmore]] ## Sources / Provenance - Developed through [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] and the linked corpus.