>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machineSo what if everybody was already using the experience machine, and you were the only one who wasn't? Would you feel the urge to conform or merely depressed and isolated?What if you had an experience m

Name
Email
Subject
Comment *
File
* = required field	[▶ Show post options & limits] Confused? See the FAQ.

Embed	(replaces files and can be used instead)
Options	Do not bump (you can also write sage in the email field) Spoiler images (this replaces the thumbnails of your images with question marks)
Password	(For file and post deletion.)
Allowed file types: jpg, jpeg, gif, png, webm, mp4 Max filesize is 8 MB. Max image dimensions are 10000 x 10000. You may upload 1 per post.

File: 1420485942226.png (151.8 KB, 300x275, 12:11, timthumb.php.png)

Anonymous 01/05/15 (Mon) 19:25:42 No.592

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine

So what if everybody was already using the experience machine, and you were the only one who wasn't? Would you feel the urge to conform or merely depressed and isolated?

What if you had an experience machine that also alleviated one's negative feelings about the experience machine? What if it granted you the experience of being an "experience machine advocate"?

Anonymous 01/05/15 (Mon) 23:58:18 No.594

What makes you think you're not in the "machine" already?

Anonymous 01/09/15 (Fri) 20:36:54 No.602

>>594
If you're talking about the question of reality, well…Define reality.

What is reality in the first place? If you'd approach that question per empiricism, that'd mean that everything you can sense is reality. But what if this reality is like the Matrix?

If reality is like the matrix, nothing is actually real, if that would be the case, how would that influence one's behaviour?

And as you said 'what makes you think you're not in the "machine" already?', you can't really know, it's like being brainwashed. Everything you know is false.