Would you use this machine?

[the rye]

This just sounds like the experience machine proposed by Nozick.
The answer of course is no we are not meant to plug our selves into the machine there is more to living than the shallow experience of happiness/pleasure.

The pleasure or happiness itself would be seen as a superficial happiness or pleasure and plugging into the machine as Nozick called it would leave us as an "indeterminate blob".

 

[Herbsk]

according to the Matrix, that didn't work.

Exactly this - Remember - the illusion would be rejected En Mass - As humans are imperfect creatures - the majority of them would never be able to accept an imperfect reality...which is more the pity.

 

[AnkaraTheFallen]

Reminds me of the virtual reality game Better Than Life from Red Dwarf, which was supposed to give you what you wanted most. The problem was that one of the characters was so full of self-loathing that his sub-conscious basically set out to destroy him as part of his 'true desire'.

That was the TV version, and it's Rimmer that's the self loathing one, I preferred the books take on it where you got everything you wanted, but in the real world your body slowly rotted away. Also had a better story for what the characters actually wanted, rather than what the show used. Though the show is still great, and I loved that episode.

 

[rayen020]

well it depends on what the machine is capable of. Can it produce a 3D realistic version of the entire poke'mon world (all lands from poke'mon blue/red to black/white)and transform me into an 11 year old boy about to get his first poke'mon from professor oak?

Or is it a preprogrammed perfect life and once i enter does it give me it's version of a perfect life and make my brain believe this is real world?

answers
scenario 1-yes
scenario 2-no

 

[Rockchimp69]

But the people in it wouldn't be real? :/
Probably not then, I'd be very tempted but if the people in it aren't real then it wouldn't be worth it. And also I'm not sure a perfect life would really be the best one, there would be no struggle for success and it would probably get boring really quickly because of altogether how meaningless it all is.

Some people can live with that, I guess I can't.