The Experience Machine And Virtual Worlds-Gualeni
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The experience machine is a common thought experiment against virtual worlds, but aren’t video games an experience machine? This isn’t even part of the paper, this is just me talking lol
argues that virtual worlds allow for self-discovery and self-construction
And then there’s some media history
Maybe people will plug into the experience machine for short times, as a sort of play, or to learn. Maybe people would plug in without a memory suppressor, merely relying on suspension of disbelief.
Would being a scientist and creating pleasurable but ultimately false “discoveries” be a useful pasttime?
