1. Good point. Learning that your life has been an illusion must be horrible, and so the hedonist would have to count that as a negative of the EM. (A better example, then, would involve you never leaving the machine.)
2. No, the hedonist sees no difference at all between the 2 machines, since the experience is identical.
1. Good point. Learning that your life has been an illusion must be horrible, and so the hedonist would have to count that as a negative of the EM. (A better example, then, would involve you never leaving the machine.)
2. No, the hedonist sees no difference at all between the 2 machines, since the experience is identical.
That’s the hedonists’ reductio. There seems to me to be a big difference. In co-op mode I can take actions with and for other people. My actions have real consequences. In solo mode there’s just hedonic value.
This accords with good cultural practices. It is better to play co-op than solo. You’re interacting with friends. You’re not just wasting your time.
It’s a version of Shweder’s pajama, the orignal moral dumbfounding example.
Rick’s daughter challenged his proscription against wearing pajamas all day. Sitting around playing video games all day is not as good as sitting around playing video games with friends all day. You may be equally better off playing solo, but it’s not as good.
1. Good point. Learning that your life has been an illusion must be horrible, and so the hedonist would have to count that as a negative of the EM. (A better example, then, would involve you never leaving the machine.)
2. No, the hedonist sees no difference at all between the 2 machines, since the experience is identical.
That’s the hedonists’ reductio. There seems to me to be a big difference. In co-op mode I can take actions with and for other people. My actions have real consequences. In solo mode there’s just hedonic value.
This accords with good cultural practices. It is better to play co-op than solo. You’re interacting with friends. You’re not just wasting your time.
It’s a version of Shweder’s pajama, the orignal moral dumbfounding example.
Rick’s daughter challenged his proscription against wearing pajamas all day. Sitting around playing video games all day is not as good as sitting around playing video games with friends all day. You may be equally better off playing solo, but it’s not as good.