Summary Of The Experience Machine By Nozick

Robert Nozick critiques the idea of “The Experience Machine”, which is a hypothetical machine that would give you any experience you desire, ultimately creating the feeling that you would think and feel as if you were writing a great novel, making a friend, or reading an interesting book.
Nozick raises three important objections to the experience machine and the theory that happiness is the only thing desirable for its own sake. First, he raises the view that individuals have a desire to “do” certain things, and not just have the experience of doing them. Secondly, Nozick argues that individuals want to live a certain way, to be some type of person or hold some kind of self-expression. Thirdly, Nozick believes that the experience machine restricts us to a “manmade reality, a life no deeper than or more important than that which people can construct.” Therefore, I believe Taylor’s theory can avoid the problems Nozick raises because it is solely the individual who decides to fulfill their desires in reality versus a fantasy in the experience machine.
The good life spectrum evolves around personal preference, more specifically, how happiness can be used to determine what gives life meaning or not. In addition, I think there is more to life than fulfilling our desires. I believe that we can fulfill our desire, but once we fulfill our desires to their fullest potential over time it leads to the best life. The good life spectrum evolves around personal preference, more specifically, how contentment can be used to fulfill desires in hopes to derive meaningfulness from those desires. However, Taylor does not state meaningfulness specifically stems from fulfilling desires, it is his