Whiteboard Notes
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Nozick: The experience machine shows that hedonism is false

What's missing in the experience machine?
Relationships
Productivity
Actually benefitting others
Knowledge
Freedom
Artistic creation

What could be included
Variety - no pain but a variety of pleasures for contrast
Surprises - no boredom - a simulated life as varied as your current life

Nozick, Anarchy State and Utopia - an answer to John Rawls' Theory of Justice - classic in poliitcal philosophy.
The book I was thining of by Murray Rothbard was Man, Economy and State. Nozick was actually inspired by it.
Rotherbard takes him to task, not in that book, but in The Ethics of Liberty.