https://www.feelingoodfeelingreat.com/2014/03/18/dive-human-experience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dive-human-experience Mindfulness, Consciousness & Spiritual Growth Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:03:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://www.feelingoodfeelingreat.com/2014/03/18/dive-human-experience/#comment-52154 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 09:03:37 +0000 https://www.feelingoodfeelingreat.com/?p=3966#comment-52154 A counter-argument to this thoguht-experiment was brought up by Elliott Sober. He offers an egoistic explanation for our motives: that we find the idea of the ignorant life repulsive, whereas we find the idea of the real life appealing. He believes there is a distinction between the idea of a pleasant state and the pleasant idea of a state. Even though it is the case that we would be happier in the ignorant life, at the time it would make us happier to choose the real life, which is why we choose that.[citation needed]It can also be argued that, even if feeling good in the short-term is not always the best option, the reason we would choose to do other things instead is because they could make our feelings better in a long-term perspective, or (if the machine were really equivalent to paradise, giving the best theoretically possible experience to everyone and forever) because of a habit of thinking this way, due to life experiences, social and evolutionary reasons.引自–維基百科

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