# Robert Nozick **Domain:** Political Philosophy / Experience Machine **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[The Mind's I]], [[Experience Machine]], [[Transition Consent]], [[Authorship]] --- ## Definition Robert Nozick (1938–2002) was an American philosopher whose experience-machine thought experiment asks whether a perfectly pleasurable simulated life would satisfy what people value. ## Corpus Context The thought experiment connects [[The Mind's I]] to [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] and the distinction between fitted satisfaction and authored existence. ## Relationships [[The Mind's I]], [[Experience Machine]], [[Transition Consent]], [[Authorship]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]