#experience machine

[lavideenrose]

My friend shared this article about Robert Nozick's 'now in-famous thought experiment':

Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience that 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?

My response:

"I remember reading somewhere that in order to keep living we must have some faith that life is good, that it has good things in store for us. I suspect that as life gets worse the appeal of the experience machine will only increase. Not just because pleasure is nice, but because (at least temporary) respite from pain is necessary. Cue the worn-out story of the rat park versus addiction (though I have no idea of its scientific credibility). "I also remember reading Brave New World at the peak of my adolescent depressive era and thinking, "Dystopia? I'll talk a shallow life of pleasure over whatever the fuck I'm in right now." I kept on living (obv) and at some point (no doubt after things improved somewhat) I decided to fight for a meaningful life rather than happiness or pleasure. I can't always choose for my life to be happy or pleasurable, but I can fight for it to be meaningful (although even that is not particularly stable ground c.f. absurdism)."

What I didn't include in my response, though I was tempted, was this David Foster Wallace passage on suicide (the ultimate form of escapism):

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

#experience machine #philosophy #hedonism #depression #anxiety #melancholia #suicide #suicidal ideation #There is only one really serious philosophical problem #camus #absurdism #meaning

[bumblebeebats]

"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great

#and yes i have indeed experimented with trying to add invisible patches on the INSIDE of the jean but unfortunately #trying to sew anything to the non-euclidean hellscape that is the crotch area of a pair of pants #inevitably ends up 1. (hand-sewing) puckered as hell or 2. (machine sewing) w me accidentally sewing a leg hole closed 😔

[mrsmaudieholmesteapot]

Großartige Schauspieler, Großartiges Drehbuch, Angenehme Regie und ganz anders als der klassische Tatort.

Philosophische Überlegungen als 90-minütigen Tatort.

15/10 Sternen (noch bis 22.04.2024 in der ARD Mediathek)

#tatort #tatort wiesbaden #Kommissar Murot #philosophy #must watch #Robert Nozick #experience machine #german tv

[uncanny-tranny]

The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people's bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren't "productive" still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:

#disability #disability advocacy #described images #image description in alt #ableism #ableism tw #my full-time job is my disability and you're lucky that i am still 'productive' as-is #your boss doesn't care that you think you're superior for being hired by them. they're still going to treat you like profit machines #it astounds me how people will capitulate for oppression because they place their intrinsic value in their ability to be at the top... #...or at least 'at the top' compared to others. it's the same impulse that makes people think their cisgender status makes them superior... #...you are placing your worth into systems which not only oppress others but offer you no true sense of worth... #...ESPECIALLY if you're also being exploited (even if just a bit)... #...you have a job sure but... do you actually get treated like a human being? are you actually paid? are you actually safe?... #...if the answer to any of those questions and more is 'no' then why do you place your value in capitalistic production. genuinely. #and why would you DEMAND disabled people to have the same exploitation you experience. why do you DEMAND productivity if you are proletaria #yes being a leftist and anticapitalist are linked but. some people still internalize capitalism without questioning it #being a leftist is about challenging that rather than assuming you're correct i think #also scientists were very silly when describing time that's like. less than a millisecond i think

[stil-lindigo]

the machine.

a comic about being a 'creator' online.

creative notes:

#in light of recent online 'success' i feel like this may come off as ungrateful #just wanna say that all the comics i make in this series are written about experiences i felt in 2022 #which was a rough year personally and creatively #and i very luckily don't feel this way anymore #and this also isnt to shame anyone who DOES feel this way #its easy to start to feel like all you are is a vending machine of art #and like thats all you are to people #theres nothing human to you #it can be a bit of a pit #and on some level this damage is self inflicted but social media really doesnt help that feeling #this wont work for everyone but having friends around you who you can talk to about stuff that ISNT art #going outside for dinner #maybe walking around #its good for when you need that feeling to go away even a bit temporarily #youre a human being #not a mindless content creation machine #and i hope anyone who feels like this now can get to a place where they have a healthier relationship with their own work #good luck to all of you #and thank you for reading #comic art #its 10pm #stillindigo art

[teachanarchy]

Watch "Is Reality Obsolete?" on YouTube

#reality #philosophy #virtual reality #technology #social media #the matrix #plato #experience #experience machine #ray bradbury #ela #literature #climate change #Youtube

[eyenaku]

FOOL MASK (GITM BY @venomous-qwille)

Handbuilt porcelain with slip, overglaze, glaze, and gold lustre accents. Paint and lacquer detailing added post fire. Handsewn fool's cap and bells added post fire.

This mask is a part of a (loosely connected) mask series, all hand-built and fired using a range of different temperatures and techniques.

My favourite mask to date, Fool from Ghost in the Machine by the wonderful @venomous-qwille !! GITM is absolutely incredible and I cannot put into words eloquently how much I adore it and Fool so instead I made this mask! Hi!

My word was this mask a struggle to make. The mask itself is entirely one piece, and entirely porcelain!! That's right, those long thin rays are solid porcelain!! The eyes and tips of the blades are done in 22 carat gold lustre. All colouring save for the black and the satin sections of darker red on the face were done with only slips and underglazes. The red colour was correct without the paint, but I thought a contrast from the rest of the gloss would look nice :)

Made to scale, the mask measures 50.8x60.96cm without the hat, and 50.8x116.84cm with it! (20x24in without hat, 20x46in including hat). He is Large, but turned out absolutely lovely and I send my many many thanks to the kiln gods for producing him unscathed.

(naku & wall for scale)

(he's so big guys i have large walls (the top of my head is only slightly above the top of the bookcase beneath him) look at him at the wall it's nuts)

#eyenaku #proudnaku #seriously so proud of this naku please interact with this my magnum opus of porcelain i hate porcelain but i love fool #my prof. encouraged me to make THE REST OF FOOL?? LIKE HIS BODY?? thats so much. i'm not gonna but that was a funny thing to experience #ANYWAYS HI QWILLE IF YOU'RE READING THIS THE TAGS!! #fool is such a guy #thas all! love ur stuff btw #art #pottery #ceramics #mask #masks #decorative masks #porcelain #fool #fool gitm #fool ghost in the machine #ghost in the machine au #fool eclipse #ghost in the machine #gitm au #gitm fool #eyenaku masks #hehe happy fool day #I think the funniest part of making him was the tactical smooch I had to make to save his face it’s a whole thing #clip next.

[sersh]

FLORENCE WELCH sharing a moment with a fan about to risk it all within_and_without on TikTok, September 10th 2022

#florence welch #florence and the machine #fatmedit #florencewelchedit #fatm #fatmdaily #dance fever #musicgifs #florence + the machine #useroptional #usersource #userrutledge #usermusic #this would be an experience #gifset #musicedit #my edit

[introspectres]

Low Tide & High Tide || [prints]

#everybody gets fish for their pet otters from a vending machine right? #universal human experience am i right guys #mine #oceancore #whale shark #lofi aesthetic #artists on tumblr #background art #vending machine #digital art #photoshop art #clip studio art

[belphieslilcow]

It's still so insane to me that according to the anime, levi just canonically has a polybius arcade machine

#obey me #obey me leviathan #uhh for tjose that dont know its an urban legend about an arcade machine that was a government psychological experiment #and like its said it was addictive and gave you amnesia and night terrors and men in black would collect data from the machines

[wearecrowley]

A revelation in the light of day You can't choose what stays and what fades away

#gomens #good omens #crowley #goodomensedit #my gifs #tvgifs #tvedit #this is during the body swap if that wasn't clear #I just adore how cold crowley plays aziraphale #also I'm experimenting with gif techniques again don't mind me #florence and the machine

[stinkythehutt]

also. something about palpatine being so adept at seeing into the future that all of his successes feel completely joyless by the time he achieves them because he’s just going through the motions… how fucked up and nihilistic and brutal that would make you…

#teddy talks #anakin is like the opposite of this bc he’s tortured by his future failures #so he lives in constant terror and denial #whereas palpatine is lowkey tortured in a different way though he’d never ever label it as such #but the boredom of it all. the inescapability… #in a sense of course you would long for ultimate power over the force. because you would feel so much just like a meaningless vehicle #of its will otherwise #and anakin would be a PERFECT toy for someone like that. because he is so bewildered. he’s easy to tangle up in knots #i’m just doing some character Thinking #but yeah. of course one in palpatines position might hate the force and feel a need to lash out and dominate it #and he manages his own repressed bewilderment by manufacturing it in anakin to an extreme degree #but. importantly. while also having complete control over the machinations of anakin’s experience #and by crushing the force and all knowledge of it #CHRIST i’m back sorry but all the stuff he does to extend his life. he obviously is terrified of death #and rather than face it he just creates My Apprentice: The Guy Super Fucked Up About People Dying #to punish somebody else for his own horror…. it’s giving projective identification. not to bring freud into this

[not-another-robin]

Anime time with grandpa

#based on an actual experience where my brother showed my dad hunterxhunter and his takeaway was 'the boys are in love' #sorry for the light spam I'm a bit machine today #narsposting #dc comics #batman #alfred pennyworth #damian wayne #batfam #batfamily

[yakny]

COME ON BABY, DON'T FEAR THE REAPER

#colored explorations‚ studies‚ and experiments #YOUR WORLD OF YESTERDAY #sonic #metal sonic #hello~! long time no see! letting you know now‚ me disappearing for long periods of time WILL happen again :D #i've just been feeling awfully lethargic to post anything online but i am drawing :} . . . it's going :'} #also: yes. he has angel wings composed of machine parts in this au. he's always morphing into someone new but it's still metal sonic! #it's part of this AUs whole theme actually :') #sidenote: to the person who sent me the ask about what YOUR WORLD OF YESTERDAY au is about more than month ago: #im so sorry 😭! i just saw it 😭😭😭!!! thank you for sending me the ask 🥹💕! i will give it my all to answer it in depth anon.

[macaulaytwins]

“Oh drunken gods of slaughter, you know I’ve always been your favorite daughter”

NBC’s Hannibal // Netflix’s Arcane // AMC’s Interview With the Vampire // The Orestiea, Anne Carson // “Ptolomaea”, Ethel Cain

#ohhh god oh no #idk what all this is about #claudia #iwtv claudia #claudia de pointe du lac #abigail hobbs #hannibal #tvc #iwtv #interview with the vampire #web weaving #parallels #daughters #ethel cain #anne carson #will graham #hannigram #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #hannibal lecter #bailey bass #kacey rohl #the oresteia #preacher’s daughter #florence and the machine #florence welch #female rage #female experience #doomed by the narrative #quotes

[shishka]

ANGELIC-TRUST.NET in 2009

#serial experiments lain #lain #old web #web archive #old internet #geocities #2000s web #90s anime #wayback machine #graphics #web finds