With his return to the White House, Donald Trump now has the singularly powerful bully pulpit and megaphone of the presidency, and with that, great control and influence over a vast multimedia ...

Rod and Kale talk about Robert Nozick’s Experience Machine thought experiment. A longtime teacher tweeted out her shock that after years of teaching this to the class, a majority of her students ...

A guy in a black jacket and sunglasses shows up at your door one Saturday morning. He explains that there’s been a little snafu. Apparently your brain has been plugged into an experience machine and ...

The refusal to plug into the experience machine also has implications for discussions on meaning in life. Subjectivist theories of meaning in life hold that our sensation of meaningfulness or other ...

When Nozick first introduced the experience machine, the idea was purely hypothetical. Today, however, the lines between his philosophical musings and our reality in the digital age are not just ...