Life Inside A Machine Analysis

Throughout the millennia, humans have sought a way to maintain happiness for their selves. Humans have used many different ideas to achieve this, from social contact to technology. Robert Nozick's thought experiment asks us if it were be a benefit or a mistake to live one's life inside a machine in which all your wildest dreams come true. It is of my opinion that it would be a detriment to oneself and society as a whole. While my arguments are all based on inductive reasoning, that doesn't make them any less true, epically when applied to my own feelings towards the subject. I understand that I am generalizing when I speak on human history and behavior in the context of living inside the machine. However, these generalizations are based on …show more content…
It is of my opinion that when one is inside the machine one is not fully living one's life. What I mean by that is that one is not able to experience all of life has to offer. When one begins to curate your experiences to what you think you want, you lose a large portion of your life. Controlling your surroundings is something that we all strive for but rarely achieve. Once I begin to choose what, where, and how I want each and every experience that I have, I begin to lose a necessary and useful part of life. The reason it's necessary and useful is because when my surroundings are something out of my control I have to adapt to the situation and not just observe. When we just observe life, we become a spectator rather than a participant. When one has to adapt one must think critically, quickly, and make tough decisions. One would also be unable to participate and experience events that one would not normally choose for themselves. The death of a loved one comes to mind. Humans tend to avoid anything that would cause them discomfort and the grief caused by such an incident would be difficult to choose. One would lose a lot of the great motivations and lessons life would …show more content…
This would be beneficial to many different humans for many different use cases. Such as a person suffering from a fatal illness being able to travel to a place or time they would otherwise be unable to. However, it's a selfish human need to want to experience anything and everything. Humans have an innate desire to consume as much as they can, never knowing when to truly stop. Most humans want to see and do everything in the name of fairness. Unfortunately, that is not the way life works, nor is it the way life should work. I will not argue that there are some rights that humans have, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I will not argue that humans need to experience anything and everything to be happy. Humans are much to easily swayed by the thought of achieving greatness and satisfaction, but we fail to realize much of the time, that it's about the journey of each individuals life and not the destination. We fail to realize that life is worth living because it's finite and because we cannot do everything. That is what makes our individual lives unique and special. Once everyone climbs Mount Everest, once everyone walks on the moon, it loses the greatness it once had. I would love to experience all that life has to offer, but I understand that there are