{
 "about": "Experience machine: validity check of the two arguments on this page. A valid argument is one whose conclusion is true whenever all its premises are true; validity says nothing about whether the premises are true.",
 "argument_1": {
  "premises": [
   "P1: if only how life feels mattered to you, you would plug in (H -> P)",
   "P2: on reflection, you would not plug in (not P)"
  ],
  "conclusion": "C1: something besides how life feels matters to you (not H)",
  "form": "modus tollens",
  "valid": true,
  "truth_table": [
   {
    "H": true,
    "P": true,
    "premises_true": false,
    "conclusion_true": false
   },
   {
    "H": true,
    "P": false,
    "premises_true": false,
    "conclusion_true": false
   },
   {
    "H": false,
    "P": true,
    "premises_true": false,
    "conclusion_true": true
   },
   {
    "H": false,
    "P": false,
    "premises_true": true,
    "conclusion_true": true
   }
  ],
  "counterexamples": []
 },
 "converse_check": {
  "premises": [
   "P1: H -> P",
   "P: you would plug in"
  ],
  "conclusion": "H: only how life feels matters to you",
  "note": "A yes would not show that only feelings matter.",
  "valid": false,
  "truth_table": [
   {
    "H": true,
    "P": true,
    "premises_true": true,
    "conclusion_true": true
   },
   {
    "H": true,
    "P": false,
    "premises_true": false,
    "conclusion_true": true
   },
   {
    "H": false,
    "P": true,
    "premises_true": true,
    "conclusion_true": false
   },
   {
    "H": false,
    "P": false,
    "premises_true": false,
    "conclusion_true": false
   }
  ],
  "counterexamples": [
   {
    "H": false,
    "P": true
   }
  ]
 },
 "argument_2": {
  "model": "The machine works as described and feels better than life off it (1 against 0.5 on the scale of the distrust check); a person refuses when at least one candidate reason applies to them, and plugs in when none does.",
  "reasons": [
   {
    "id": "R1",
    "reason": "to actually do things, not only have the experience of doing them",
    "source": "Nozick, as quoted in the SEP entry Hedonism",
    "inside_the_setup": true
   },
   {
    "id": "R2",
    "reason": "to be a certain sort of person",
    "source": "Nozick, as quoted in the SEP entry Hedonism",
    "inside_the_setup": true
   },
   {
    "id": "R3",
    "reason": "to make a difference in the world, beyond a man-made reality",
    "source": "Nozick, as quoted in the SEP entries Hedonism and Well-Being",
    "inside_the_setup": true
   },
   {
    "id": "R4",
    "reason": "to have real relationships with other people",
    "source": "SEP entry Hedonism, section 2.3.1, in its discussion of the case",
    "inside_the_setup": true
   },
   {
    "id": "R5",
    "reason": "distrust of the machine itself",
    "source": "ruled out by the setup in the SEP entry Well-Being; listed because a reader may still hold it",
    "inside_the_setup": false
   },
   {
    "id": "R6",
    "reason": "preferring the life you already have",
    "source": "this site's addition",
    "inside_the_setup": true
   }
  ],
  "combinations_checked": 31,
  "combinations_of": [
   "R1",
   "R2",
   "R3",
   "R4",
   "R6"
  ],
  "answers_predicted": [
   "no"
  ],
  "per_reason": [
   {
    "reason": "R1",
    "refusing_combinations_with_it": 16,
    "refusing_combinations_without_it": 15,
    "refusal_identifies_it": false
   },
   {
    "reason": "R2",
    "refusing_combinations_with_it": 16,
    "refusing_combinations_without_it": 15,
    "refusal_identifies_it": false
   },
   {
    "reason": "R3",
    "refusing_combinations_with_it": 16,
    "refusing_combinations_without_it": 15,
    "refusal_identifies_it": false
   },
   {
    "reason": "R4",
    "refusing_combinations_with_it": 16,
    "refusing_combinations_without_it": 15,
    "refusal_identifies_it": false
   },
   {
    "reason": "R6",
    "refusing_combinations_with_it": 16,
    "refusing_combinations_without_it": 15,
    "refusal_identifies_it": false
   }
  ],
  "conclusion": "C2: the refusal alone does not tell which reason is doing the work (true for each of the five reasons inside the setup)"
 },
 "distrust_check": {
  "model": "Only how life feels matters (H true); the person expects to feel worse on a machine they do not trust (0 on a 0-1 scale) than off it (0.5), and better on a machine that works as described (1).",
  "H_only_feelings_matter": true,
  "distrusts_machine": true,
  "answer": "no",
  "answer_if_trusting": "yes",
  "note": "A no that rests on distrust is consistent with H, so it gives no support to C1; the setup rules distrust out."
 }
}