# 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]] ## Sources / Provenance - Developed through [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] and the linked corpus.