If anyone is interested, one of the people from the Experimental Philosophy crew did a study on peoples (people with no philosophical training) intuitions about experience machines, using a number of slightly different scenarios (including this “backward-looking experience machine”). The author’s interpretation of the results is that peoples intuitions are largely an effect of status quo bias: they don’t care if they’re in reality or not, they care about maintaining status quo.
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If anyone is interested, one of the people from the Experimental Philosophy crew did a study on peoples (people with no philosophical training) intuitions about experience machines, using a number of slightly different scenarios (including this “backward-looking experience machine”). The author’s interpretation of the results is that peoples intuitions are largely an effect of status quo bias: they don’t care if they’re in reality or not, they care about maintaining status quo.
the paper: http://homepage.uab.edu/angner/SWB/DeBrigard.pdf