The Experience Machine

The Experience Machine by Robert Nozick is mainly about a machine in which you could have kind of desired experience of your choice. You would be able to choose from a large library of experience and for two years you would reside in a tank with electrodes attached to your brain. Then after the two years, you would have some time to come out of the tank and pre-plan the next two years of your life to your liking. I found this so crazy and technology is just looking for more ways to zone us out even more from living life. I would personally not want to be plugged-in as the article points out, "plugging into an experience machine limits us to a man-made reality..."(p.90). I totally agree we would just be living by the experiences that we choose for ourselves, we would not be in touch with the world or the people in it. Another quote that I found really interesting was, "To be is to do, as some famous philosopher once said."(90). I think this quote just sums it all up.  he says that the machine doesn't do anything for us, and he is totally right.  Why would you just want to satisfy your needs? At the end of the day there is not point, and after all your needs are satisfied what comes next?