{
  "title": "Experience machine argument validity",
  "description": "Validity check of the two arguments on the experience machine page: Nozick's argument (if only how life feels mattered you would plug in; you would not; so something else matters) over every truth assignment, the invalid converse, all 31 combinations of five candidate reasons for refusing, and a model of a refusal that rests on distrust of the machine. Validity says nothing about whether the premises are true. Computed 2026-10-31. License CC BY 4.0.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": "Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas",
  "page": "https://puzzleschartsanddilemmas.com/dilemmas/experience-machine/",
  "derived_from": [
    "Computed by Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas from the arguments in standard form on this page",
    "Nozick's three wants as quoted in Andrew Moore, Hedonism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (substantive revision 2013-10-17), https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hedonism/ (facts paraphrased, no text reproduced), section 2.3.1",
    "Description of the machine (it works as described; the person would not know) in Roger Crisp, Well-Being, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (substantive revision 2026-01-13), https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/ (facts paraphrased, no text reproduced), section 4.1"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas from the data listed"
}