When Nozick first introduced the experience machine, the idea was purely hypothetical. Today, however, the lines between his philosophical musings and our reality in the digital age are not just ...

Zu viel! Zu viel! O, dass ich nun erwachte! ~ Tannhäuser According to legend, the bard Tannhäuser, on his way to a competition at the Wartburg, was seduced by the goddess Hulda, the consort of Wotan.

In 1974 Robert Nozick published the book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, in which he posed the following thought experiment: If you could be plugged into an “experience machine” (what we would likely ...