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Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life’s experiences? If you are worried about missing out on desirable experiences, we can suppose that business enterprises have researched thoroughly the lives of many others. You can pick and choose from their large library or smorgasbord of such experiences, selecting your life’s experiences for, say, the next two years. After two years have passed, you will have ten minutes or ten hours out of the tank, to select the experiences of your next two years. Of course, while in the tank you won’t know that you’re there; you’ll think it’s all actually happening… Would you plug in?
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
imi pot imagina multe situatii in care as spune da. de exemplu, nu ai vrea sa te plimbi printr-un labirint facut intr-o varietate 3D strambata printr-un spatiu 4 sau 5D? (nu mai stiu exact de cate dimensiuni e nevoie ca sa se ajunga la maximum de complexitate topologica posibila).
si mai e si chestiunea de viteza. tinand cont ca multe “experiente” pot fi utile tuturor (de exemplu scoala), ar putea fi posibil sa fie mai rapid sa ai acele experiente bagat in masinarie decat direct. avand in vedere ca avem durata de viata limitata, un castig de timp poate fi foarte util.
pe de alta parte, exista o doza sanatoasa de paranoia care imi spune “nu te lasa pe mana altcuiva”. deci ar fi un proces complicat de decizie.
chichi
28/04/2011 at 22:10
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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Camil Stoenescu
28/04/2011 at 22:44