The Experience Machine is a brain-in-a-vat thought experiment introduced by philosopher Robert Nozick in his book Anarchy‚ State‚ and Utopia. All of the arguments made in this paper mostly apply to before one has entered the Machine. Once one has entered‚ they lose all memory of the life they had before. They forget ever making the conscious decision to go into the Machine. It no longer is important to them and the fake reality created inside the Experience Machine is now their new actual reality
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MEMBERS : Kalimuthu – 199 Jeetesh K Patel – 217 Prasad Kubal – 205 Jitendra Yadav – 234 Vivek Kothari – 204 Franco Fernandes - 236 GUIDE : Prof. Satish Namjoshi Contents Acknowledgement Introduction Methodology Statistical Treatment and Diagnostics Executive Summary Recommendations ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to
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Should voluntary euthanasia be allowed in Hong Kong? The issue of euthanasia has been discussed for decades. Euthanasia is a medical practice to end one’s life with the purpose to alleviate pain or suffering while voluntary euthanasia is one of its categories that carried out at the request of the patient. A few years ago‚ a paralyzed patient had requested for euthanasia to end his life painlessly. This attracted wide attention among the general public in Hong Kong. People started to discuss whether
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Yongli Wang English 83 Should Cell Phones Be Allowed In College Classrooms? I think cell phones shouldn’t be allowed in college classrooms. Nowadays‚ parents buy a cell phone for their teenager‚ in order to contact them more conveniently. But a lot of students bring their cell phone to the college‚ during class. If cell phone shouldn’t be banned in classrooms
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If people do not want to vote they do not have to. If someone is not informed they should still get to vote. Uninformed voting does not damage the democracy‚ it is the county‚ government‚ and or city to inform people that there is a vote going on if they would like to come vote or not. I have not really heard of anyone not being informed
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Anti-Doping Agency. Performance-enhancing drugs are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans(Wikipedia‚2017). When it comes to performance-enhancing drugs in athletics‚ there are mixed views from whether or not it should be allowed. Cycling‚ athletics‚ weightlifting‚ and swimming have been regularly associated with athletes using PEDs‚ no sport is immune. Throughout the years the world has seen big time athletes have so much fame to just in second their whole life drastically
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Do you think animal testing should be allowed for scientific purposes? I think we can’t use animal to test. Body systems of animals are different than humans it has been proven that many tests like hiv/aids were proven to be a failure on human beings 15 million animals are tested each year and probably over half of them die or get severely abused every year animal testing also cost a lot especially for the medications‚ the failures‚ and to care for the animals. For one thing‚ we can’t see a point
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Should Convicted drug offenders be allowed the choice of rehab as opposed to jail time? According to the Bureau of prisons‚ roughly half (48.6%) of prisoners are incarcerated for drug offenses. How would putting these offenders in rehabilitation programs help change the way out system works? Would it help the supposed “war on drugs”? Or just make things worse? One reason I believe putting non violent drug related offenders in rehabilitation programs would help is because over the past three decades
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It is difficult to see how anyone could deny that all workers should have the rights to strike. This is because striking gives workers freedom of speech. This is justifiable‚ because Britain is a democratic nation. <br> <br>My first reason supporting the motion that workers should be allowed to strike is in order to bring to the fore poor safety conditions. For instance‚ in the nuclear power industry‚ any breaches of safety can have tragic consequences. If the employees are exposed to nuclear material
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Should junk food be allowed at school? Junk food is generally defined as “a diet high in processed foods and soft drinks” (Wiles et al.‚ 2009‚ p.1). By definition‚ junk food contains artificial food colorings and preservatives‚ including fast food‚ oily foods‚ snacks and high sugary beverage. Students usually eat snacks between meals. According to McPhail et al. (2011)‚ the snacking habit among students has increased in the past twenty years. This means students are taking more junk food in a higher
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